Ooids being Micritized to Form Pelloids - Holocene (Pel/1)
| Outstanding feature |
Ooids, micritized bioclasts. |
| Folk Classification |
Ooids |
| Dunham Classification |
Ooids |
| Common Grains |
Ooids & micritized bioclasts |
| Sorting |
Well sorted |
| Rounding |
Well rounded |
| Micritization & envelopes |
Some alteration of margins of bioclasts |
| Cement & diagenetic fabric |
n/a |
| Porosity |
n/a |
| Depositional Setting |
Margin of high energy shoal |
| Diagenetic history |
Ooids being altered by blue-green algae |
This is a typical fine grained oolitic sediment that accumulated at the marign of a high energy ebb tidal delta shoal, that is also the site of the accumulation of bioclast fragments.
Thursday, November 11, 2021