Re: paleonet "shallow marine environment"

[Chris Baldwin <baldwin@xxxxxxxx>]

Dee Ann Cooper wrote:

>my husband and i are working on a paper concerning an
>extremely fossil-rich isochronous layer in a marine
>carbonate.  the further into it we get, the more we
>debate how "shallow" shallow is.  is there is an exact
>definition of "shallow" or a "rule-of-thumb"
>definition of "shallow".  all of our "critters" seem
>to fall into the "shallow marine" category and i think
>we have some evidence of terrigenous input as well
>(i.e. kaolinite).
>
>Dee Ann Cooper, BS, MS, PG
>Phone: (409) 751-6907
>Address: 17890 Nonie Lane, Lumberton, TX  77657
>  
>
This isn't really a serious response but when I was doing my PhD field 
work with Pete Crimes in north Spain Pete brought along Bill Frakes - I 
think then from the University of Kansas. We were looking at some body- 
and trace-fossiliferous Upper Cambrian at Barrios de Luna and Bill 
commented that our paleoenvironmental work on this section was really 
"...trying to determine whether the water would have come over the top 
of your wellingtons...! I guess the length of British Geological Survey 
wellies is one standard. Many others, including Howard Johnson and 
myself in Reading's facies book included anything out to the shelf edge 
in Shallow Marine. So...wellies to shelf edge (a movable feast).

Good luck Dee Ann.

Chris Baldwin