Photo on the right shows Mississippian limestone with calcite cements illuminated under CL. Area shown in photo is 250 microns wide. Photo by Eric Hiatt
photo of calcite crystals
photo of grab sampler
Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis:

 

Hiatt, E.E. and Pufahl, P.K., 2014, Cathodoluminescence petrography of carbonate rocks: application to understanding diagenesis, reservoir quality, and pore system evolution: in Coulson, I. (ed.) Cathodoluminescence and its application to geoscience: Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Series Volume 45, p. 75-96.

Zentmeyer, R.A., Pufahl, P.K., James. N.P., & Hiatt, E.E., 2011, The Denault Formation, Labrador Trough: synsedimentary gypsum and dolomite along a Paleoproterozoic ramp: Sedimentary Geology, in press.

Choquette, Philip W., Hiatt, Eric E., 2008, Shallow-burial dolomite cement: A major component of many ancient sucrosic dolomites: Sedimentology, v. 55, no. 2, 423-460.

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, E.E., and Kyser, T. K., 2009, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton Island, Alaska: Sedimentology, In Press.

*Budd, DA and Hiatt, Eric E., 1993, Mineralogical stabilization of high-magnesium calcite: Geochemical evidence for intracrystal recrystallization within Holocene porcellaneous foraminifera: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 261-274.
* Honorable Mention for the 1993 Outstanding Paper Award.

Zentmyer, R.A., James, N.P., Pufahl, P.K, Hiatt, E.E., 2007, Restricted Paleoproterozic basin: a candidate environment for synsedimentary dolomite precipitation?: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 420.

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, T.K., 2006, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton island, Alaska: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 89.

Yang, W., Lehrmann, D., Hiatt, Eric, Wei, J., Yu, Y., Wignall, P., 2002, Productivity-controlled peritidal carbonate cycles in a super-greenhouse climate in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: 2002 America Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, Program with Abstracts, v. 11, p. A194.

Hiatt, Eric E., 1998, Sequence stratigraphy of the Permian Phosphoria Formation: interrelationships between systems tracts, paleoproductivity, and upwelling in an ancient epicontinental sea: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. 397.

Choquette, P.W. and Hiatt, Eric E., 1995, Occult dolomite cement: a major component in sucrosic shelf dolostones: The First SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Program and Abstracts, v. 1, p. 38.

Hiatt, E.E. and Choquette, P.W., 1993, The effects of dolomite neomorphism on the geochemical signature of a Permian marginal marine dolomite: implications for the use of sedimentary dolomite geochemistry as a paleoenvironmental indicator: Society for Sedimentary Geology, Mid-Year Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p. 34.

Dawson, W.C., O’Hearn, T.C., and Hiatt, Eric E., 1993, Diagenetic and sedimentologic aspects of Pinda (Albian) Dolomites: Offshore West Africa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, p. 90.

Choquette, P.W. and Hiatt, Eric E., 1991, Multigenerational dolomitization of a Permian shelf-carbonate complex: the Ervay Sequence (Park City Fm), western Wyoming, U.S.A.: p. 50 in Bosellini and others, Dolomieu Conference on Carbonate Platforms and Dolomitization, Ortisei, Italy, 300 p.

Clark, W.J., Choquette, P.W., Hiatt, Eric E., Garfield, T.R., Budd, D.A., and Hurley, N.F., 1991, Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Ervay member (Permian, Park City Fm.), west-central Wyoming paleoshelf: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 553.

Choquette, P.W., Hiatt, Eric E., and Oesleby, T.W., 1989, Styles of dolomitization in the Late Permian Ervay carbonates, Wind River Basin region, Wyoming: petrographic, d13C, and d18O characteristics: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, p. A-18.


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