D burial of the firmground and filling of omission structures. Petrography and environmental controls on the formation of. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Carbonate hardgrounds are surfaces of synsedimentarily cemented carbonate layers that have. The largest variety of dss occurs in pelagic sediments. Stratigraphy is somehow a hard topic, many concepts are too complex such as. Early marine seafloor lithification of carbonate sediments leads to the formation of hardgrounds and is known from rocks as old as the proterozoic. Local concretions form first in a hardground and can be surrounded by burrows of organisms until the cement is.
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