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027-Se-Pedra-Blanca

027 San Pedrera Blanca, Mallorca , Spain. Here clinoform beds (up to 30 degrees) are formed of reef-slope deposits, composed of skeletal and intraclastic grainstone, packstone, rudstone, and floatstone, that interfinger at the upper part of the cliff with in situ dish (deeper-water) corals. These clinoform beds are downlapping onto the sub-horizontal white bioturbated open-shelf sediments. The sea cliffs in the late Miocene carbonate reef complex are 86 m high here. (Pomar, 1991).

 

Miocene Platform Reefs of Mallorca and other Balearic Islands / 027 Se Pedrera Blanca
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6/23/2004

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