Christopher G. St C. Kendall & Abdulrahman Alsharhan 
Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues 
A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman

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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.

قائمة المحتويات

Dedication Douglas James Shearman (1918-2003): Father of the
sabkha model (Evans, G.).

Introduction to Quaternary carbonate and evaporite sedimentary
facies and their ancient analogues (Alsharhan, A.S. and Kendall,
C.G.St.C.).

Part 1 Recent carbonate and evaporate sediments.

An historical review of the Quaternary sedimentology of the Gulf
(Arabian/Persian Gulf) and its geological impact (Evans,
G.).

Holocene geomorphology and recent carbonate-evaporite
sedimentation of the coastal region of Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates (Kendall, C.G.St.C. and Alsharhan, A.S.).

The impact of sea-level change on ramp margin deposition:
lessons from the Holocene sabkhas of Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates (Park, R.K.).

Holocene evolution of Arabian coastal sabkhas: a re-evaluation
based on stable-isotope analysis, forty years after
Shearman’s first view of the sabkha (Gunatilaka,
A.).

Interplay between Holocene sedimentation and diagenesis, and
implications for hydrocarbon exploitation: return to the sabkha of
Ras Umm Said, Qatar (Shinn, E.A.).

Facies stacking patterns in a modern arid environment: a case
study of the Abu Dhabi sabkha in the vicinity of Al Qanatir Island,
United Arab Emirates (Strohmenger, C.J., Shebl, H., Al-Mansoori,
A., Al-Mehsin, K., Al-Jeelani, O., Al-Hosani, I., Al-Shamry, A. and
Al-Baker, S.).

Coastal and continental sabkhas of Barr Al Hikman, Sultanate of
Oman (Mettraux, M., Homewood, P.W., Kwarteng, A.Y. and Mattner,
J.).

Coastal Holocene carbonates of Abu Dhabi, UAE: depositional
setting, sediment distribution, and role of cyanobacteria in
micritization (Kendall, C.G.St.C. and Alsharhan, A.S.).

Engineering properties of the carbonate sediments along the Abu
Dhabi coast, United Arab Emirates (Epps, R.J.).

Part 2 Geochemistry of recent carbonate and evaporite
sediments.

An historical odyssey: the origin of solutes in the coastal
sabkha of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Wood, W.W.).

Geochemistry and nature of organic matterof the
Pleistocene-Holocene carbonate evaporate sediments of
Al-Khiran, southeastern Kuwait (Qabazard, S., Abdullah, F.H. and
Al-Temeemi, A.).

Halite, sulphates, sabkhat and salinas of the coastal regions
and Sabkha Matti of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Kirkham,
A.).

Distribution of organic matter in the transgressive and
regressive Holocene sabkha sediments of Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates (Kenig, F.).

The role of bacterial sulphate reduction in carbonate
replacement of vanished evaporites: examples from the Holocene,
Jurassic and Neoarchaean (Wright, D. and Kirkham, A.).

Part 3 Ancient carbonates and evaporites.

Evaporitic source rocks: mesohaline responses to cycles of
”famine or feast” in layered brines
(Warren, J.K.).

Coupled passive extension and compression on salt-based passive
margins analyzed by physical models (Costa, E., Cavozzi, C. and
Doglioni, N.).

Salt tectonics and structural styles of the western High Atlas
and the intersecting Essaouira-Cap Tafelney segments of the
Moroccan Atlantic margin (Hafid, M., Bally, A.W., Ait Salem, A
and Toto, E.).

Carbonates and evaporites of the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation,
Abu Dhabi: a petroleum exploration challenge (Al Suwaidi, A.S.,
El Hami, M., Hagiwara, H., Aziz, S.K. and Al Habshi, A.R.).

Selenite facies in marine evaporites: a review (Orti,
F.).

Index.

عن المؤلف

Christopher G. St. C. Kendall and Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan are the authors of Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues: A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman, published by Wiley.