Late Palaeozoic seawater chemistry based on oceanic reef carbonate rocks preserved in accretionary margins: Akiyoshi, Japan
Duration:
January 2015
Funding source:
ARC LIEF Collaborating/Partner Organisation Contributions
Carbonate rocks record geochemical archives that inform ancient marine chemistry.
This project investigates Late Palaeozoic reefal carbonates that were transported across the Panthalassa Ocean (proto-Pacific) on oceanic seamounts before being accreted on to Japan as exotic terranes.
The Carboniferous and Permian reef rocks formed during the important period of late Palaeozoic climate change including imitation of major continental glaciation.
