Phosphate Deposits of the World: Neogene to Modern Phosphorites Book

List of contributors; Preface;
Part I. The Modern Setting:
1. Upwelling processes associated with Western Boundary Currents;
2. Diagenesis of phosphorus in sediments from non-upwelling areas;
3. Organic matter in Modern marine phosphatic sediments from the Peruvian continental margin;
4. Pore water, petrologic and stable carbon isotopic data bearing on the origin of Modern Peru margin phosphorites and associated authigenic phases;
5. Phosphorite growth and sediment dynamics in the Modern Peru shelf upwelling system;
Part II. Modern and Neogene Phosphorites and Associated Sediments:
6. Occurrence of dolomite in Neogene phosphatic sediments;
7. Organic geochemistry of phosphorites: relative behaviors of phosphorus and nitrogen during the formation of humic compounds in phosphate-bearing sequences;
8. Neogene to Holocene phosphorites of Australia;
9. Miocene phosphorites of Cuba;
10. Phosphorite deposits in the Upper Oligocene, San Gregorio Formation at San Juan de la Costa, Baja California Sur, Mexico;
11. Phosphates in West and Central Africa - the problem of Neogene and Recent formations;
12. Phosphorite deposits on the Namibian continental shelf;
13. Phosphorite deposits on the South African continental margin and coastal terrace;
14. Moroccan offshore phosphorite deposits;
15. Neogene phosphorites of the Sea of Japan;
16. Physical and chemical properties of the phosphate deposit on Nauru, western equatorial Pacific Ocean;
17. The submerged phosphate deposit of Mataiva Atoll, French Polynesia;
Part III. The Neogene Environment:
18. Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic controls of the temporal and geographic distribution of Upper Cenozoic continental margin phosphorites;
19. Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic setting of the Miocene phosphogenic episode;
20. Isotopic evidence for temperature and productivity in the Tertiary oceans;
21. Climate model evidence for variable continental precipitation and its significance for phosphorite formation;
22. Neogene geochemical cycles: implications concerning phosphogenesis;
Part IV. Neogene Phosphorites of California and the Southeastern USA:
23. Miocene phosphogenesis in California;
24. The role of bacterial mats in phosphate mineralization with particular reference to the Monterey Formation;
25. Coupled changes of oxygen isotopes in PO3/4- and CO2/3- in apatite, with emphasis on the Monterey Formation, California;
26. The lithostratigraphy of the Hawthorn Group of peninsular Florida;
27. Clay mineralogy of the phosphorites of the southeastern United States;
28. Paleoceanography and paleogeography of the Miocene of the southeastern United States;
29. Carolina continental margin:
Part I. Stratigraphic framework for cyclical deposition of Miocene sediments in the Carolina Phosphogenic Province;
30. Carolina continental margin:
Part II. The seismic stratigraphic record of shifting Gulf Stream flow paths in response to Miocene glacio-eustacy: implications for phosphogenesis along the North Carolina continental margin;
31. Carolina continental margin:
Part III. Patterns of phosphate deposition and lithofacies relationships within the Miocene Pungo River Formation, North Carolina continental margin;
32. Carolina continental margin:
Part IV. Relationships between benthic foraminiferal assemblages and Neogene phosphatic sediments; North Carolina coastal plain and continental shelf.