Book description
This book is part of the International Association
of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications.
The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic volumes
edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to
sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high
standards as those published in the journal Sedimentology
and several of these volumes have become standard works of reference.
This volume commemorates the eclectic research of Douglas James Shearman
into evaporites, which was initiated by his studies of the prograding
UAE coastal sabkhas or salt flats that incorporate evaporite minerals
which displace and replace earlier carbonate sediments. His subsequent
proselytization of the study of ancient evaporites in sedimentary
sections all over the world led to fundamental advances in our
understanding of arid zone carbonate sedimentology.
The papers presented here are based on presentations made in Abu Dhabi,
UAE 12-14th October 2004 and 7th -8th November 2006. They provide a
retrospective from the 1960's and 70's of Holocene evaporites and
carbonates, recapturing Shearman's contribution by revisiting the
Holocene coastal evaporite and carbonate sediments of the
Arabian/Persian Gulf from Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman.
The first set of papers considers these sediments from the perspective
of their coastal geomorphology, sedimentary character and their
geochemistry. Later papers examine the significance of these settings in
the ancient geological section world-wide, including examples from the
Mesozoic-Cenozoic of the Moroccan Atlantic margin and the Upper Jurassic
Arab Formation of the Arabian Gulf.
