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By Christopher G. St. C. Kendall,Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan

This publication is a part of the International organization of Sedimentologists (IAS) unique Publications.

The particular guides from the IAS are a suite of thematic volumes edited via experts on topics of imperative curiosity to sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and published to a similar excessive criteria as these released within the magazine Sedimentology and several other of those volumes became normal works of reference.

This quantity commemorates the eclectic examine of Douglas James Shearman into evaporites, which used to be initiated via his reviews of the prograding UAE coastal sabkhas or salt residences that comprise evaporite minerals which displace and exchange past carbonate sediments. His next proselytization of the examine of historical evaporites in sedimentary sections worldwide ended in basic advances in our realizing of arid region carbonate sedimentology.

The papers awarded listed below are in keeping with displays made in Abu Dhabi, UAE 12-14th October 2004 and seventh –8th November 2006. they supply a retrospective from the 1960's and 70's of Holocene evaporites and carbonates, recapturing Shearman's contribution by means of revisiting the Holocene coastal evaporite and carbonate sediments of the Arabian/Persian Gulf from Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman.

the 1st set of papers considers those sediments from the point of view in their coastal geomorphology, sedimentary personality and their geochemistry. Later papers learn the importance of those settings within the historical geological part world-wide, together with examples from the Mesozoic-Cenozoic of the Moroccan Atlantic margin and the higher Jurassic Arab Formation of the Arabian Gulf.

 

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