Composition, Texture and Diagenesis of Carbonate Sediments: Effects on Benthic Optical Properties

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOAL. Our long term goal is to understand how physical and chemical characteristics of bottom sediment affect the optical properties of the shallow sea floor. Of particular interest is sorting out how inorganic and organic parameters of the sediment interrelate to determine benthic light fields. SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES. Our research focuses on sedimentologic characteristics of carbonate grains. Specific objectives are 1) to determine feedback mechanisms between mineralogical and textural (e.g. size, shape, surface roughness, density, and packing) sediment parameters, light fields within the sediment, and benthic biological community structure and organic production, and 2) to use these relationships to model spectral reflectance and its contribution to the upwelling component of scalar irradiance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA634988

Entities

People

  • R. P. Reid

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Carbonates
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Field Emission
  • Grain Size
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Light Scattering
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Optical Properties
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Seabed
  • Sediments
  • Surface Roughness

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography