CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES

TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 14, Number 1, 1999, June

PATTERNS IN THE COMPOSITIONS, PROPERTIES, AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF CARBONATE MINERALS L. Bruce Railsback.........................................................................................................................1

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND EVAPORITE GENESIS OF NEOGENE CONTINENTAL SABKHA PLAYA COMPLEX, KARAKE^ILI BASIN, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, TURKEY tbrahim TURKMEN and Mehmet OZKUL...................................................................................21

ELEMENTAL SULFUR FORMATION RELATED TO CELESTINE REDUCTION: AN EXAMPLE OF BIOMINERALIZATION OF BACTERIAL ORIGIN E. Tekin, B. Varol, G.M. Friedman, and A.U. Dogan.....................................................................32

THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION AND DIAGENETIC HISTORY OF PLEISTOCENE CARBONATES, NORTH QATAR Hanafy Holail..............................................................................................................................41

COLD WATER POLAR ARAGONITIC BIVALVE ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION, EAST ANTARCTICA C. Prasada Rao...........................................................................................................................56

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN WINNIPEGOSIS CARBONATE-PRAIRIE EVAPORITE TRANSITION, SOUTHERN ELK POINT BASIN Jisuo Jin and Katherine M. Bergman.............................................................................................64

UNDERDEVELOPED OIL FIELDS - UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN AND LOWER WOLFCAMPIAN CARBONATE RESERVOIRS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO Ronald F. Broadhead....................................................................................................................84

TIDAL FLAT ROCKS AND SEDIMENTS ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Mohamed 1. EI-Sayed................................................................................................................. 106

ANNOUNCEMENTS..............................................................................................................121 BOOK REVIEWS...................................................................................................................122