Journal article
FROM MANGROVES TO PETROLEUM PRECURSORS: AN EXAMPLE FROM TROPICAL NORTHEAST AUSTRALIA.
Abstract
Missionary Bay, north Queensland, is an example of a tropical modern depositional environment dominated by mangrove swamps. Several major sedimentary facies are represented. Large amounts of mangrove litter are carried in nearly anoxic creeks to the bay. Bay-bottom sediments have only a shallow upper oxidized layer, and are strongly reducing at depth. Total lipid content of the bay-bottom sediments is very high. Sedimentation rates for the …
Authors
Risk MJ; Rhodes EG
Journal
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 69, No. 8, pp. 1230–1240
Publication Date
August 1, 1985
ISSN
0149-1423