>I got that article in today. Are you using a seminal paper on carbonate
>debris flows as evidence that all carbonate is rapidly deposited?
Not at all, just that the reefs are not bioherms, and there is a need to
consider models other than the accepted dogma, especially if you are going
to try to reinterpret the whole world.
>But the basinal area that Cook is talking about has many rock property
>differences. The shallow water clasts are surrounded by a dark matrix. They
>give lots of other differences such as the clasts float in the dark matrix,
>the clasts are unsorted etc.
>
>Thus this is not a useful article for trying to have bioherms explained via
>a rapid sedimentation or catastrophic event.
No, only to point out that the prevaling paradigm can blind workers to the
data. In these cases, the earlier workers had assumed they were reefs on
the basis of the presence of fossil corals and the general reef-like shape
of the mounds. They were wrong.
Art
http://chadwicka.swau.edu