<p> The beach deposits at the head of the Lion's Head Peninsula are described and categorized according to the type, size and morphology of the rocks making up the deposit and their origins. This categorization emerges as a pattern of four zones along the l ength of the beach. </p> <p> The points at each end of the beach, which used to be in a much more defined bay, have been glacially eroded by re-entrants and undercut by postglacial lakes. Shales and dolomite from the escarpment make up this zone's deposits. </p> <p> Zone two is a dolomite cobble beach supplied by the escarpment's erosion from a blockaded late-glacial ice margin and the undercutting of postglacial lakes. </p> <p> Zone three is a mixture of the dolomite from the escarpment, lacustrine sand deposits, and glacial erratics. </p> <p> Zone four is made up of a distinct band of erratics deposited by the ice of the Georgian Bay lobe of the Late Wisconsin Glaciation. The Lion's Head promontory stood resistant to the flow of ice and caused it to deposit these large erratics which are still visible today. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Reservoirs are generally created by damming rivers. The upper reaches of any reservoir is generally narrow and winding like the parent river. This is the riverine zone of the reservoir. The reservoir is deepest and widest near the dam. Here, lake-like conditions exist and the water is quiescent. This is the lacustrine zone. The transitional zone separates the lacustrine and riverine zone. It has intermediate characteristics. There are many characteristics, both physical and chemical, that differentiate between these three zones. Based on the differences in characteristics between the three zones, a method has been developed to successfully divide any reservoir into three zones. The method developed was applied to Lake Manassas and the Occoquan Reservoir located in the Occoquan watershed in Virginia. Both are man-made impoundments. Analysis of data, based on the method developed, was successfully in dividing both reservoirs into the three zones. This method may therefore be successfully applied to obtain zonation in reservoirs. / Master of Science

Der Zustrom von Grundwasser zu Seen (lacustrine groundwater discharge, LGD) kann signifikante Auswirkungen auf Qualität und Quantität des Seewassers haben. Viele Ansätze zur Identifikation und Quantifizierung von LGD basieren auf Temperaturunterschieden zwischen Grund- und Seewasser und der Messung des damit einhergehenden Wärmetransports. Ziel der Doktorarbeit ist es, Signalfortpflanzung und -ausbreitung des Grundwasserzustroms von der Punktskala an der Sediment-Wasser-Grenzfläche über den Wasserkörper bis zur Grenzfläche Wasseroberfläche-Atmosphäre zu untersuchen. Getestet wird die Hypothese, dass das im Verhältnis zum Umgebungswasser wärmere und daher leichtere Grundwasser in der kalten Wassersäule aufsteigt und die Detektion von LGD an der Wasseroberfläche mit thermalen Infrarot Aufnahmen (TIR) erlaubt. Zunächst wird mit der hierarchical patch dynamics ein Konzept entwickelt, das eine angemessene Kombination multipler Techniken zur Erfassung von Wärme- und Wasserflüssen anbietet (Kap. 2). Dabei werden verschiedene räumliche Skalen und ökohydrologische Grenzflächen abgedeckt. Darauf basierend werden in einem Mesokosmos-Experiment unterschiedliche LGD-Raten durch den Zustrom von warmem Wasser am Grund eines Outdoor-Pools simuliert (Kap. 3 und 4). Ein Glasfaserkabel (fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing, FO-DTS) wird in verschiedenen Tiefen installiert, um das Wärmesignal des Grundwasserzustroms unter verschiedenen Bedingungen zu verfolgen. Mit einer TIR-Kamera wird die Temperatur des Oberflächenwassers aufgezeichnet. Die Aufnahmen werden mit FO-DTS-Temperaturen von 2 cm unter der Wasseroberfläche validiert. Die Anwendung von TIR und FO-DTS ermöglicht die Detektion von LGD in der Wassersäule und an der Grenzfläche Wasseroberfläche-Atmosphäre. Wolkenbedeckung und der Tagesgang der Netto-Strahlung kontrollieren den Auftrieb von LGD und die Zuverlässigkeit der TIR-Ergebnisse. Die besten Ergebnisse werden bei Bewölkung und nachts erzielt. / Lacustrine groundwater discharge (LGD) can have significant impacts on lake water quantity and quality. There is a need to understand LGD mechanisms and to improve measurement methods for LGD. Approaches to identify and quantify LGD are based on significant temperature differences between GW and lake water. The main goal of this PhD thesis is to trace heat signal propagation of LGD from the point scale at the sediment-water interface across the overlying water body to the water surface-atmosphere interface. The PhD thesis tests the hypothesis that the positive buoyancy of warm GW causes upwelling across the cold water column and allows detection of LGD at the water surface by thermal infrared imaging (TIR). First, a general conceptual framework is developed based on hierarchical patch dynamics (HPD). It guides researchers on adequately combining multiple heat tracing techniques to identify and quantify heat and water exchange over several spatial scales and ecohydrological interfaces (Chapter 2). Second, the conceptual framework is used for the design of a mesocosm experiment (Chapters 3 and 4). Different LGD rates were simulated by injecting relatively warm water at the bottom of an outdoor mesocosm. A fiber optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS) cable was installed in a 3D setup in the water column to trace the heat signal of the simulated LGD under different weather conditions and over entire diurnal cycles. Finally, a TIR camera was mounted 4 meters above the mesocosm to monitor water surface temperatures. TIR images were validated using FO-DTS temperature data 2 cm below the water surface (Chapter 4). The positive buoyancy of relatively warm LGD allows the detection of GW across the water column and at the water surface-atmosphere interface by FO-DTS and TIR. Cloud cover and diurnal cycle of net radiation strongly control the upwelling of simulated LGD and the reliability of TIR for detection of LGD at the water surface-atmosphere interface. Optimal results are obtained under overcast conditions and during night.

As recentes descobertas de acumulações gigantes de hidrocarboneto nas coquinas e outras rochas carbonáticas lacustres das supersequência Rifte e Pós-Rifte (pré-sal) das Bacias de Campos e Santos tem fomentado uma série de pesquisas focadas em entender a gênese destes reservatórios singulares. Esta pesquisa se concentra em entender o modelo deposicional e evolução das rochas bioclásticas retrabalhadas e demais rochas associadas pertencentes a Formação Coqueiros, depositadas em alto externo no norte da Bacia de Campos, durante a transição entre as fases final de rifte e sag, a partir da integração de dados petrográficos de amostras laterais e testemunho, dados sísmicos e de perfis de poços. Sete fácies carbonáticas, duas magnesianas, uma siliciclástica e três híbridas foram definidas a partir de análise combinando informações de amostras laterais e estruturas sedimentares interpretadas em perfis de imagem. Rudstones e grainstones bioclásticos com moderado a alto retrabalhamento das conchas representam 65% das amostras descritas. Diversas evidências apontam para um ambiente deposicional lacustre predominantemente raso, dominado por correntes de tempestades, sendo as principais: (i) presença de rudstones com estratificações cruzadas de alto ângulo (>14°) e paleo-correntes de longshore; (ii) ocorrência pontual de sedimentos lamosos intercalados a espessos pacotes de rudstones bioclásticos amalgamados, indicando ambiente sujeito a correntes de maior energia, acima da zona de ação de ondas de tempo bom; (iii) predomínio de depósitos de rudstones desprovidos de matriz sobre o alto estrutural, com grande continuidade lateral, coerentes com processos de tempestades atuantes sobre amplas áreas de lago raso; (iv) depósitos de rudstones maciços, com conchas desorganizadas, semelhantes aos depósitos bioclásticos costeiros modernos da Califórnia e de Shark Bay. Três conjuntos de associação de fácies são propostos : (i) conjunto de alta energia, representado por rudstones e grainstones bioclásticos desprovidos de matriz, depositados entre as regiões de shoreface e berma, acima do nível de ação de onda de tempo bom (FWB); (ii) conjunto de baixa energia, formado pelas fácies hibridas com matriz lamosa ou peloidal e demais fácies de granulometria inferior à areia média, depositados abaixo do FWB ou em ambientes rasos protegidos (backshore); (iii) conjunto formado principalmente por facies de oóides argilo-magnesianos, cujo controle é dado pela composição mais alcalina da água do lago. Blocos diagramas dos modelos deposicionais de cada uma das cinco unidades sismo-estratigráfica estabelecidas para a Formação Coqueiros na área de estudo permitiram inferir a evolução das associações de fácies ao longo do tempo, evidenciando uma tendência geral de raseamento do lago, culminando com a discordância Pré-Neo-Alagoas (DPA). O padrão de paleo-correntes sugere atuação de mais de uma direção de vento sobre o alto externo, um mais forte vindo de noroeste e outro mais brando vindo de sudeste, resultando em fácies bioclásticas limpas de matriz e com bom potencial como reservatório em ambos os flancos do alto estrutural. Estas direções de ventos propostas para o Eobarremiano e Neoaptiano no norte da Bacia de Campos são de extrema importância para prever a localização das melhores fácies deposicionais da Fm. Coqueiros em outras áreas alvo de exploração de hidrocarboneto. / Recent discoveries of giant hydrocarbon accumulations in coquinas and other lacustrine carbonate rocks of Rift and Post-Rift (pre-salt) supersequences of Campos and Santos Basins have stimulated a series of studies focused on understanding the genesis of these unique reservoirs. An integrated petrologic-sedimentologic-stratigraphic-seismic study of Coqueiros Formation allowed characterizing the depositional model and evolution of reworked bioclastic rocks and other associated rocks deposited on the external high in the north of Campos Basin during the transition between late rift and sag stages. Seven carbonatic facies were defined from analysis combining information from sidewall core and sedimentary structures interpreted in image logs, in addition to one siliciclastic, two magnesian, and three hybrids facies. Bioclastic rudstones and grainstones with moderate to high reworking of the shells represent 65% of the samples described. Several pieces of evidences point to a predominantly shallow lacustrine depositional environment, dominated by storm currents: (i) presence of rudstones with high-angle cross-bedding (>14°) and longshore paleocurrents; (ii) limited occurrence of muddy sediments interbedded with thick packages of amalgamated bioclastic rudstones, indicating environment subject to high energy currents, above the fairweather wave base (FWB); (iii) predominance of rudstones deposits devoid of matrix on the structural high, with great lateral continuity, consistent with processes of storms acting on large areas of shallow lake; (iv) deposits of massive rudstones, with disorganized shells, similar to the modern coastal bioclastic deposits of California and Shark Bay. Three sets of facies association are proposed: (i) high energy set, represented by bioclastic rudstones and grainstones devoid of matrix, deposited between the shoreface and berm regions, above the FWB; (ii) low energy set, formed by hybrid facies with muddy or peloidal matrix and other facies of grain-size finer than medium sand, deposited below the FWB or in protected shallow environments (backshore); (iii) and an alkaline set, formed mainly by magnesian clay ooids, whose control is given by the more alkaline composition of lake water. Block diagrams of each of the five seismic-stratigraphic units, established for the Coqueiros Formation in the study area allowed to infer the evolution of the facies associations over time, demonstrate the general falling of relative lake level culminating in the pre-Neo-Alagoas unconformity (DPA). Paleocurrents suggests the activity of more than one wind direction over the external high, the stronger coming from northwest and a milder one coming from southeast, resulting in clean matrix bioclastic facies with good reservoir potential on both flanks of the structural high. These proposed wind directions for the Eobarremian and Neoaptian in the north of Campos Basin is extremely important to predict the location of the best depositional facies of the Coqueiros Formation in other target areas for hydrocarbon exploration.

Este trabalho objetiva investigar a dinâmica geomorfológica glacial das áreas livres de gelo na Península Potter, Ilha Rei George, Antártica, em resposta à recente retração da geleira Polar Club. O mapeamento geomorfológico e a interpretação da evolução dos sistemas lacustres entre 2006 e 2011 das áreas livres de gelo na Península Potter foi realizado através da interpretação visual em uma imagem Quickbird (RGB432), em imagens COSMO-SkyMed polarizações VV e HH em modo spotlight processadas com filtros espaciais e perfis topográficos. Também foram considerados os aspectos morfométricos da península, interpretados através da geração de mapas de hipsometria, declividade, curvas de nível e sombreamento. A variação frontal da geleira Polar Club entre os anos de 1981 a 2015 foi obtida pela análise temporal de imagens Landsat. O mapeamento geomorfológico da Península Potter evidenciou os processos geomorfológicos proglaciais e o padrão de disposição espacial das feições lineares marginais ao gelo, como cordões morâinicos e feições glaciofluviais (relacionadas ao aporte da fusão sazonal da neve e do gelo), bem como terraços marinhos, ravinas e afloramentos rochosos. As imagens COSMO-SkyMed e a aplicação de filtros Passa Alta e Direcionais possibilitaram a delimitação das feições de interesse com maior nitidez. O modelo de evolução da variação frontal da geleira Polar Club indica que condição de último avanço glacial registrado pela geomorfologia proglacial pode estar relacionado à Pequena Idade do Gelo e que houve um contínuo processo de retração desde então. Entre 1981-2015 evidenciou-se a redução de área de 2,95km2 para a geleira Polar Club (perda de área total de 9,4%). Este processo pode estar relacionado com a tendência de aumento das temperaturas médias do ar, a tendência de aumento de dias com precipitação líquida no verão e o número de dias em que a temperatura média ultrapassou os 0°C na região nas últimas décadas. O recuo da geleira Polar Club é pouco expressivo quando comparado a outras geleiras da Ilha Rei George, no entanto, quando se observa as áreas expostas evidenciou-se que houve um aumento significativo (36,9%) no período. Através da análise da evolução dos depósitos morâinicos da Península Potter foi possível identificar três fases principais de formação de morâinas que evidenciam antigas posições da frente da geleira durante períodos de estabilização frontal. A análise da evolução dos sistemas lacustres na área de estudo evidenciou que diversos lagos sofreram alterações de área em resposta à dinâmica de retração glacial registrada para os últimos 34 anos. / This study aimed to investigate the glacial geomorphological dynamics of the ice-free areas in the Peninsula Potter, King George Island, Antarctica, in response to the recent Polar Club Glacier retreat processes. The geomorphological mapping and lacustrine systems evolution modelling between 2006-2011 were obtained with Quickbird (RGB432) image, application of the spatial digital filters in COSMO-SkyMed (cross and co-polarization, spotlight mode) images and topographic profiles visual interpretations. Also considered were the morphometric aspects of the peninsula, interpreted by generating hypsometry, slope, contour and shaded relief maps. The Polar Club Glacier frontal variation between 1981-2015 was obtained with Landsat temporal analysis. The Potter Peninsula geomorphological mapping evidenced the proglacial and geomorphological processes and the spatial distribution pattern of linear marginal to ice features, as morainic ridges and glaciofluvial features, related to the contribution of the seasonal melting of snow and ice, marine terraces, ravines and rocky outcrops. The High Pass and directional filters in COSMO-SkyMed images provided conditions for geomorphological features. The frontal glacier fluctuations modelling indicated that last glacial advance condition recorded by proglacial geomorphologic can be related Little Ice Age and continuous retreat process. Between 1981-2015 the Polar Club glacier lost 2,95km2 of total area (9,4% of total area). The retreat process can be related to the trend of rising average temperatures in recent decades, trend of increase in days with liquid precipitation in summer and the number melting degree days. The Polar Club Glacier retreat is not very significant when compared to other glaciers of King George Island, however, when observing the exposed areas was evident that there was a significant increase (36.9%). The moraine deposits evolution analysis in Peninsula Potter provided conditions for identify three main phases of moraines deposition and that show past glacier front positions during periods of glacier marginal stabilization. The analysis of the evolution of lacustrine systems in the study area evidenced changes in various lakes during last 34 years in response of glacial retreat dynamics.

L’érosion mécanique des surfaces continentales, ou "détritisme", résulte du forçage climatique mais peut être amplifiée par le forçage anthropique. Cette érosion des sols, et sa compréhension, représentent aujourd’hui un questionnement sociétal majeur. Le présent travail s’est donc intéresse aux relations étroites liant climat, Homme et détritisme, dans les environnements continentaux holocènes. Associée à une démarche analytique multiparamètres, couplant quantification et modélisation de l’érosion des sols, l’étude intégrée et la comparaison de différents systèmes lacustres d’Europe occidentale, d’altitude et de piedmont, alpins et pyrénéens, a permis d’obtenir les informations suivantes. A long terme, la bipartition climatique Holocène (Optimum Climatique/Néoglaciaire) s’illustre par une augmentation de l’humidité, généralisée en Europe occidentale, et de l’ordre de 800 mm/an dans les Alpes françaises. Cette transition résulterait d’un relais entre le forçage solaire et le couplage océan/atmosphère. A court terme, l’Holocène est ponctué de périodes plus humides ou plus sèches, synchrones a l’échelle de l’Europe occidentale, et culminant avec le Petit Age Glaciaire. La présence humaine est d’abord mise en évidence dans les systèmes de piedmont et est synchrone a l’échelle des Alpes (Néolithique). Elle parait plus tardive dans les sites de haute altitude (Age du Bronze). L’implantation humaine en altitude et en piedmont est régulée par l’accessibilité aux sites, mais également par des rétroactions climatiques négatives. En piedmont, ces rétroactions négatives ne sont effectives que jusqu’à l’Age du Fer. Si le détritisme est dans un premier temps principalement controlé par le climat, il subit les conséquences de l’anthropisation des le Néolithique dans les Préalpes. Cette anthropisation est limitée aux systèmes de piedmont, ou elle explique jusqu’à 50% de l’érosion des sols, notamment pendant l’Age du Bronze, l’Age du Fer et le dernier siècle. / The mechanical erosion of continental surfaces, or “detritism”, results from climatic forcing, but can be amplified by the anthropogenic one. Today, soil erosion represents therefore one of the major issue. The present work is thus focused on the interactions linking climate, human impacts and detrism, on Holocene continental environments. Associated with a multiparameter analytical approach, combining the quantification and the modelisation of soil erosion, the integrative study and the comparison of different lacustrines archives from Western Europe provide the following informations. At long time scale, the transition out of the Holocene Thermal Maximum towards the Neoglacial period is defined by the progressive establishment of a wetter climate within Western Europe. In Western French Alps, this is more particularly characterized by an increase of 800 mm per year of the mean annual precipitation. Human presence is first detected throughout the piedmont plain, and is synchronous across the Alps (Neolithic period). Human settlements are regulated by the accessibility, but also by negative climate feedbacks, at least up to the Iron Age. Over the Holocene, soil erosion is thereby mainly controlled by the climate but is also influenced by the human activities wihtin the piedmont plain, since the Neolithic period. This anthropogenic pressure explains up to 50% of the soil erosion quantified into the lacustrine archives from the French Prealps. It is more particularly important during the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the modern period.

nÃo hà / Esta tese discute a problemÃtica patrimonial/ambiental, a partir dos desafios socioeducacionais inerentes à conservaÃÃo e sustentabilidade do patrimÃnio ambiental lacustre de Fortaleza. Toma como objeto empÃrico quatro lagoas urbanas: Precabura, Porangabussu, Messejana e Parangaba e as unidades escolares mais prÃximas a estes sÃtios lacustres. O objetivo à analisar as formas pelas quais a temÃtica patrimonial ambiental urbana à promovida na educaÃÃo escolar a fim de avaliar em que medida as aÃÃes e projetos educativos incorporam as representaÃÃes, valores e prÃticas cotidianas que os grupos sociais escolares e circunvizinhos expressam em relaÃÃo aos patrimÃnios ambientais representados pelos bens lacustres. A abordagem à conduzida por um referencial teÃrico amparado no diÃlogo entre os diversos conhecimentos disciplinares, notadamente, a Geografia, a HistÃria, a Sociologia, a Filosofia e a Psicologia Social. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa ancorada na Teoria das RepresentaÃÃes Sociais e sua abordagem estrutural, a Teoria do NÃcleo Central. Apoia-se na discussÃo sobre as questÃes ambiental e patrimonial, as representaÃÃes sociais, a paisagem e a afetividade. Subsidiam a discussÃo aqui empreendida, os autores: Augustin Berque, Christian Oliveira, Claire Damery, FranÃoise Choay, Dominique Poulot, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Jean-Marc Besse, JÃngen Habermas, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Michel Rautenberg, Serge Moscovici e Simone Scifone, dentre outros. Como resultado, o estudo evidencia a ausÃncia de um projeto educacional que concilie as questÃes ambientais e patrimoniais numa abordagem pautada pelos valores socioculturais expressos nas representaÃÃes dos grupos sociais escolares e residentes no entorno dos sÃtios lacustres. O modelo educacional escolar ignora o potencial comunicacional e de formaÃÃo ambiental/patrimonial dessas paisagens-ambiÃncias. Este fato coopera para a manutenÃÃo e o agravamento da condiÃÃo de insustentabilidade que caracteriza o patrimÃnio ambiental lacustre de Fortaleza. Portanto, à necessÃrio, que a comunidade escolar assuma efetivamente a funÃÃo de mediadora no processo de reconhecimento, valorizaÃÃo, conservaÃÃo e fruiÃÃo do patrimÃnio ambiental. Para tanto, à necessÃrio investir em estratÃgias educativas que superem a abordagem ambiental/patrimonial generalizante do discurso ecossistÃmico-midiÃtico e privilegiar as representaÃÃes sociais que as comunidades tÃm em relaÃÃo aos bens ambientais patrimoniais dispostos no seu lugar. / This thesis discusses the environmental issues, from social and educational challenges of sustainability and conservation of urban lagoons as environmental heritage in the city of Fortaleza, city located in the state of Cearà - Brazil. It takes as empirical object four lagoons named Precabura, Porangabussu, Messejana, Parangaba and the school units that are closer to these lacustrine sites. The objective is to examine the ways in which urban environmental heritage issue in education is promoted in order to assess the extent the actions and educational projects incorporate representations, values and everyday practices that school groups and population that surround them express their relationship to the environmental heritages. The theoretical framework supports dialogue among distinct forms of disciplinary knowledge, notably, Geography, History, Sociology, Philosophy, and Social Psychology. This is a qualitative research anchored in the social representations theory and its structural approach, the Central Nucleus Theory (CNT). The thesis relies on the discussion of the environmental and heritage issues, social representations, landscape and affection. The authors that subsidize the analysis are: Augustin Berque, Christian Oliveira, Claire Damery, FranÃoise Choay, Dominique Poulot, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Jean-Marc Besse, Jungen Habermas, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Michel Rautenberg, Serge Moscovici and Simone Scifone, among others. The study highlights the absence of an educational project that reconciles environmental and heritage issues that consider a sociocultural approach guided by human values expressed in the representations of the school community and residents who live near the lacustrine sites. The model of current school education ignores the power of communication and the environmental heritage awareness of these paisagens-ambiÃncias. This actually works for the maintenance and the worsening condition of unsustainability that characterizes the lagoons that are natural and environmental heritage of Fortaleza. Therefore, it is imperative that the school community effectively assume its role as a mediator in the recognition, appreciation, enjoyment and conservation of environmental heritage process. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to invest in educational strategies that overcome the far-reaching environmental / heritage approach publicized and widespread by the media-ecosystem speech and privilege the social representations that communities have in relation to their environmental goods.

Linking diagenesis to depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy enables better prediction of spatial and temporal distribution of diagenetic alterations, and thus of evolution of reservoir quality in sandstones. This thesis demonstrates that employing this approach is possible because depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy can provide useful information on parameters controlling the near-surface diagenesis, such as changes in: (i) pore-water chemistry, (ii) residence time of sediments under certain geochemical conditions, (iii) detrital composition and proportion of extra- and intra-basinal grains, and (iv) types and amounts of organic matter. Evidence from four case studies enabled the development of conceptual models for distribution of diagenetic alterations and of their impact on evolution of reservoir quality in sandstones deposited in paralic, shallow marine and fluvio-lacustrine environments. Diagenetic alterations that have been constrained within the context of depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy include: (i) carbonate cement (microcrystalline and equant calcite spars dolomite over poikilotopic calcite), pyrite and glaucony are most abundant in progradational braid-delta fan sequences, particularly along the topsets (i.e. maxiumum flooding surface, MFS) and along parasequences boundaries in the deltaic facies of the early highstand systems tract HST, (ii) cementation by coarse spar calcite, dolomite, and the formation of moldic porosity by the dissolution of framework carbonate grains are most abundant in the aggradational fan deltas sequences, (iii) eogenetic kaolinitization of framework silicates is largely restricted to the fluvial and paralic HST sandstones, whereas telogenetic kaolinite may occur in the transgressive systems tract TST sandstones too, (iv) formation of goethite ooids in the TST sediments, (v) formation of glaucony, siderite spherules, and extensive grain-coatings, grain-replacing and ooidal berthierine, more in the TST than in the HST sediments, particularly below the transgressive surface TS and MFS, (vi) cementation by calcite with (δ18OV-PDB = -11.5‰ to -5.4‰) and Fe-dolomite/ankerite (δ18OV-PDB = -10.8‰ to -9.6‰) occurs in both TST and HST sandstones, (vii) syntaxial quartz overgrowths are most extensive in the HST sandstones owing to the presence of incomplete grain-coating berthierine/chlorite, (viii) greater amounts of micro-porosity in the TST sandstones than in the HST sandstones are related to the greater amounts of berthierine/chlorite in the former sandstones, and (ix) chlorite rims around quartz grains retarded the precipitation of quartz overgrowths, and hence prevented a greater loss of primary intergranular porosity in fluvio-lacustrine sandstones. Therefore, constraining the distribution of diagenetic alterations in the contexts of depositional facies and sequence stratigraphic context is a powerful approach to be used in hydrocarbon exploration.

Manito Lake is a large, perennial, Na-SO4 dominated hypersaline lake located in the northern Great Plains of western Canada. Significant water level decrease over the past several decades has lead to reduction in volume and surface area. Today, the lake is 15% of its mid -20th century volume and 46% of its former area. This decrease in water level has exposed large areas of nearshore microbialites. These organosedimentary structures have various external morphologies, vary in mineralogical composition, and show a variety of internal fabrics from finely laminated to massive and clotted. These features range from small, mm-scale, finely laminated encrustations to large, reef-like structures up to 5 m high and over 500 m long. Although there is relatively little consistent lateral variability in terms of morphology, the structures do vary significantly with elevation in the basin. Petrographic evidence confirms a strong biological involvement in the formation of these structures. Nonetheless, inorganic and trapping mechanisms may also play a role. Dolomite, aragonite, and calcite are the most commonly found minerals in these structures, however, monohydrocalcite, magnesian calcite, hydromagnesite, dypingite, and nesquehonite are also present. The calcite is a pseudomorph after ikaite, which forms an open porous dendritic and shrub-like fabric, comprising the interiors of massive shoreline microbialite mounds and pinnacles. These ikaite pseudomorphs are encased in millimeter to centimeter-scale laminated dolomite-aragonite rinds. Radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis have indicated microbialite formation began about 2200 yBP in a shallow, productive, saline and cold lake. Over the next 900 years, the microbialites record a transgressing lake in a cool climate, which corresponds to a period not previously documented in this region but is referred to as the Dark Ages Cold Period, which has been documented in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This is followed by 500 years of warmer conditions coinciding with the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Starting about 600 years ago the lake experienced a dramatic decrease in level resulting in formation of extensive carbonate pavements, cemented siliciclastics, rinds, and coatings.

Manito Lake is a large, perennial, Na-SO4 dominated hypersaline lake located in the northern Great Plains of western Canada. Significant water level decrease over the past several decades has lead to reduction in volume and surface area. Today, the lake is 15% of its mid -20th century volume and 46% of its former area. This decrease in water level has exposed large areas of nearshore microbialites. These organosedimentary structures have various external morphologies, vary in mineralogical composition, and show a variety of internal fabrics from finely laminated to massive and clotted. These features range from small, mm-scale, finely laminated encrustations to large, reef-like structures up to 5 m high and over 500 m long. Although there is relatively little consistent lateral variability in terms of morphology, the structures do vary significantly with elevation in the basin. Petrographic evidence confirms a strong biological involvement in the formation of these structures. Nonetheless, inorganic and trapping mechanisms may also play a role. Dolomite, aragonite, and calcite are the most commonly found minerals in these structures, however, monohydrocalcite, magnesian calcite, hydromagnesite, dypingite, and nesquehonite are also present. The calcite is a pseudomorph after ikaite, which forms an open porous dendritic and shrub-like fabric, comprising the interiors of massive shoreline microbialite mounds and pinnacles. These ikaite pseudomorphs are encased in millimeter to centimeter-scale laminated dolomite-aragonite rinds. Radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis have indicated microbialite formation began about 2200 yBP in a shallow, productive, saline and cold lake. Over the next 900 years, the microbialites record a transgressing lake in a cool climate, which corresponds to a period not previously documented in this region but is referred to as the Dark Ages Cold Period, which has been documented in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This is followed by 500 years of warmer conditions coinciding with the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Starting about 600 years ago the lake experienced a dramatic decrease in level resulting in formation of extensive carbonate pavements, cemented siliciclastics, rinds, and coatings.