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Carbonate sediments occur on most modern continental shelves. Because the various skeletal and nonskeletal grains are not moved far from their environments of formation, their distribution is a reliable tool on continental shelves for interpreting the history of Holocene deposition.
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Ginsburg, R.N., James, N.P. (1974). Holocene Carbonate Sediments of Continental Shelves. In: Burk, C.A., Drake, C.L. (eds) The Geology of Continental Margins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01141-6_11
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