Coastal lagoons as archives of event deposits, Belize, Caribbean Sea
Final Report Abstract
Five principal sedimentary facies may be distinguished in coastal environments of Belize, including mud, sand, peat, shell concentrations, and soil. Facies boundaries indicate retrogradation during the Holocene sea-level rise. Facies distribution is characterized by strong heterogeneity. Eighteen sedimentary events were detected that presumably represent storm landfalls. They include shell concentrations, landward thinning sand beds including hiatus, and corals within brackish lagoon sediments (overwash). Comparison with existing local and regional storm records reveals both correlations and discrepancies. Likewise, it is difficult to detect the influence of climate variation and the land-use of the Maya civilization on the sedimentary successions investigated.
Publications
- (2012): Holocene mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation along the coast of south-central Belize, Central America.- Annual meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Hamburg
Adomat, F. & Gischler, E.
- (2012): Mixed carbonates and siliciclastics along the coast of southern Belize (Central America): sediment cores as archives of late Quaternary coastal development and major storms.- AAPG-SEPM Annual Meeting, Long Beach, USA
Gischler, E. & Adomat, F.
- (2013): Facies patterns and event sedimentation during the Holocene along the Belize coast, Central America. Annual meeting Geologische Vereinigung, Tübingen
Adomat, F. & Gischler, E.
- (2015): Sedimentary patterns and evolution of coastal environments during the Holocene in central Belize, Central America.- Journal of Coastal Research.- 31: 802-826
Adomat, F. & Gischler, E.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-14-00093.1) - (2016): Taxonomic and taphonomic signatures of mollusk shell concentrations from coastal lagoon environments in Belize, Central America.- Facies, 62: 5
Adomat, F., Gischler, E. & Oschmann, W.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-015-0454-4)
