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Diagenesis of Mid-Cretaceous Rudist Reefs, Valles Platform, Mexico

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Reef Diagenesis

Abstract

The Taninul (“reef”) facies of the El Abra Formation in the Sierra de El Abra and the adjacent Sierra Madre Oriental (Fig. 1) is renowned for exposures of mid-Cretaceous rudist assemblages. These outcrops have long served as the most accessible depositional model (Kellum 1930, Muir 1936, Bonet 1952, Griffith et al. 1969), and, recently, as a diagenetic model (Aguayo 1978), for the spectacular oil-producing trend of the Golden Lane. Early submarine cement of rudist boundstones and grainstones is extensive (Shinn et al. 1974, Aguayo 1978), and Minero (in press) documents significant early meteoric diagnesis as well in the backreef facies. This study deals with the diagenesis of the platform-margin rocks, generally referred to as the Taninul facies or “reef”, at the eastern margin of the Valles platform (Fig. 1).

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    Paul Enos

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    Johannes H. Schroeder Ph.D.

  3. Laboratoire de Pétrologie Sédimentaire et Paléontologie, Université Paris-Sud Orsay, Bâtiment 504, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

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Enos, P. (1986). Diagenesis of Mid-Cretaceous Rudist Reefs, Valles Platform, Mexico. In: Schroeder, J.H., Purser, B.H. (eds) Reef Diagenesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82812-6_9

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