Sub‐wavebase cross‐bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, Upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Pomar, Luis, Obrador, Antonio, Westphal, Hildegard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: The Toe; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2002.00436.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-3091.2002.00436.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2002.00436.x

Cross‐bedded grainstones on carbonate ramps and shelves are commonly related to the locus of major wave energy absorption such as shorelines, shoals or shelf breaks. In contrast, on the Early Tortonian carbonate platform of Menorca (Balearic Islands), coarse‐grained, cross‐bedded grainstones are fou...