Rock-fabric
facies
Color Depositional
texture
Sedimentary structures/
textures
Carbonate and accessory grains Porosity
(percent)
Hydraulic
conductivity
Paleo-
environ-
ment
Peloid
grainstone and packstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2, grayish orange 10YR 7/4 and pale yellowish orange 10YR 8/6 matrix Burrow-mottled pelmold and peloid grainstone and packstone Highly burrowed, including minor Callianassa shrimp burrows, very thickly bedded Mainly pelmolds and peloids; minor pelecypods, gastropods, oomolds, and Schizoporella bryozoans, miliolids, quartz grains, intraclasts 25-45 percent pelmoldic, 5-15 percent solution-enlarged burrow porosity, trace root-mold porosity High to very high Shallow shelf
Coral framestone Very pale orange 10YR 8/2, grayish orange 10YR 7/4, dark yellowish orange 10YR 6/6, moderate yellowish brown 10YR 5/4, pale yellowish brown 10YR 6/2 Coral framestone Massive with borings and vugs Mainly Monastrea(?) head coral, minor medium to large pebblesized Schizoporella; trace to 5 percent quartz grains with peloids in boring and vug fill 15 percent intragrain porosity, 5-10 percent separate vug porosity, 5 percent root-mold porosity Moderate Shallow shelf
Peloid wackestone and packstone Very pale orange 10YR 8/2, dark yellowish orange 10YR 6/6, moderate yellowish brown 10YR 5/4, pale yellowish brown 10YR 6/2, and light brown 5YR 5/6 matrix Mainly mud-dominated fabric characterized by pelecypod, benthic foram lime floatstone with a peloid lime wackestone to mud-dominated lime pack - stone matrix, but minor grain-dominated fabric characterized by peloid lime grainstone or skeletal grain-dominated lime packstone matrix; minor solution-enlarged burrows filled with peloid grain - stone or packstone Highly burrowed, including minor Callianassa shrimp burrows, common ~0.5-1 mm diameter rhizoliths and less common up to 5-cm wide subvertical root molds, medium to very thickly bedded Mainly peloids, pelecypods (including Chione) and benthic foraminifers (including archaiasinids, Sorites, miliolids, Cyclorbiculina), ostracods, and minor Schizoporella bryozoans, quartz grains, and intraclasts 5-20 percent pelmol - dic and skeletal moldic porosity, 5-40 percent separate- and touching-vug porosity, trace to 10 percent root-mold porosity, 1 percent intraparticle porosity Matrix of float-stone low, burrow fill moderate, vuggy porosity low to very high Shallow shelf
Gastropod floatstone and rudstone Pale yellowish brown 10YR 6/2, very pale orange 10YR 8/2, light gray N7 to medium dark gray N4 Moldic gastropod float-stone and rudstone with skeletal wackestone and packstone matrix; local lime wackestone ~0.5-1 mm diameter rhizoliths, local desiccation cracks, very thinly to very thickly bedded Mainly gastropods molds including Planorbella, Pomacea, Physa, Hydrobiidae?, smooth-walled ostracods, and skeletal fragments; minor quartz sand, pelecypods, freshwater-algae Charophyta 15 percent skeletal-moldic separate vugs, solution-enlarged semivertical root molds, minor vertical or irregular vugs and local root-mold porosity Matrix low, vertical vuggy hydraulic conductivity low to high, horizontal vuggy hydraulic conductivity low to medium Freshwater marsh, freshwater pond, or brackish
Conglomerate Very pale orange 10YR 8/2
and pale yellowish brown
10YR 6/2 matrix, and very
pale orange 10YR 8/2, dark
yellowish orange 10YR 6/6,
moderate yellowish brown
10YR 5/4, pale yellowish
brown 10YR 6/2, moderate
brown 5YR 4/4, light brown
5YR 6/4, grayish orange pink
5YR 7/2 and dark gray N3 to
light gray N7 intraclasts
Intraclast lime rudstone
with quartz sandstone
matrix or quartz sand-rich
lime grainstone or muddominated
lime packstone
matrix
Common ~0.5-1-mm
diameter rhizoliths,
thinly to medium
bedded
Mainly intraclasts and quartz
grains; local minor peloids,
pelecypods
5-15 percent intergrain
porosity, 5-15 percent
separate- and touching-
vug porosity, local
5-10 percent rootmold
porosity
Matrix low,
vuggy porosity
low to high
Fluvial(?),
shoreface(?)
Pedogenic
limestone
(A) very pale orange 10YR
8/2, dark yellowish orange
10YR 6/6, moderate yellowish
brown 10YR 5/4, pale
yellowish brown 10YR 6/2
and grayish orange 10YR
7/4; (B) very pale orange
10YR 8/2 and grayish orange
10YR 7/4; (C) dark yellowish
orange 10YR 6/6, grayish
orange 10YR 7/4, pale
yellowish brown 10YR 6/2,
moderate yellowish brown
10YR 5/4 and very pale
orange 10YR 8/2
3 principal types: (A) laminated
calcrete, (B) massive
calcrete, (C) root-mold
limestone
(A) Thinly to very
thickly bedded and
drapes over microtopography;
(B) very
finely laminated;
(C) thinly to very
thickly bedded or
poorly bedded,
desiccation cracks
(A) minor quartz grains; (B) minor
intraclasts, pelecypods, skeletal
fragments, quartz grains, rotaliform
benthic foraminifera including
Ammonia and Elphidium;
(C) skeletal fragments and local
miliolids, minor quartz sand
(A) Minor
microporosity; (B)
20-30 percent rootmold
porosity, 5-10
percent vuggy porosity,
5 percent pelmoldic
and skeletal
moldic porosity;
(C) 2-5 percent skeletal
moldic porosity,
2-5 percent desiccation
crack porosity
(A) Low,
(B) moderate to
high, (C) matrix
very low to low
Subaerial
exposure
Mudstone and
wackestone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
grayish orange pink 5YR 7/2,
pale yellowish brown 10YR
6/2, grayish orange 10YR 7/4
Lime mudstone and
wackestone
Common subvertical
cracks, ~0.5-1 mm
diameter rhizoliths,
semivertical solutionenlarge
vugs, thinly to
thickly bedded
(A) Brackish: mainly ostracods,
skeletal fragments, gastropods
(including Planorbella in the
G-3679 test corehole), benthic
foraminifers (including Ammonia,
Elphidium, miliolids, soritids,
Archaias, peneroplids, Androsina;
minor pelecypods quartz sand;
(B) mud mound: peloids, pelecypods,
benthic foraminifers (including
miliolids), quartz sand,
intraclasts, ostracods
5-20 percent skeletal
mold porosity, 5 percent
root-mold porosity,
5 percent separate
vug porosity, none to
30 percent semivertical
touching vug
porosity, none to
15 percent desiccation-
crack porosit
Matrix very low
to low; moderate
to high vertical
vuggy hydraulic
conductivity;
very Low to low
horizontal vuggy
hydraulic conductivity
Two principal
environments
(A) brackish
and
(B) mud
mound(?)
Skeletal
grainstone and
packstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
pale yellowish brown 10YR
6.2, grayish orange 10YR
7/4; light gray N7 to very
light gray N8
Skeletal grainstone and
packstone
Principally massive and
highly burrowed,
thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly skeletal fragments, benthic
foraminifers (including archaiasinids,
soritids, miliolids, peneroplids,
Elphidium, Ammonia,
Androsina, Amphistegina,
rotaliforms), peloids, pelecypods
(including Trachycardium,
Anodontia), ostracods, gastropods,
echinoids; minor quartz
grains; trace red algae
15-30 percent skeletal
moldic porosity,
5-15 percent intergrain
porosity, trace to
10 percent pelmoldic
porosity, 5-15 percent
root-mold porosity,
1 percent intraparticle
Matrix moderate Shallow
shelf
Sandy skeletal
grainstone and
packstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
very light gray N8
Sandy skeletal grainstone
and packstone
Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly peloids, quartz sand,
mollusks (including Chione,
Modulus, Turritella, Codakia,
Lucina, Lirophora, Pyrazisinus,
Tagelus, Anomalocardia,
Melongena, Lucinisca,
Carditimera, Codakia, Cerithium),
skeletal fragments
2-10 percent skeletal
molds, separate and
touching vugs
Matrix medium,
vugs medium to
very high
Shallow
shelf
Laminated
peloid grainstone
and
packstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2 Peloid grainstone and
packstone
Thinly laminated to
very thinly bedded
Mainly peloids; minor quartz
grains, skeletal fragments, and
benthic foraminifers (including
miliolids, Elphidium, Androsina,
rotaliforms), mollusk fragments
10-15 percent moldic
porosity, 10-20 percent
intergrain porosity,
bedding plane vug
porosity 5-20 percent
Matrix moderate,
bedding
plane vugs high
to very high
Intertidal
Pelecypod
floatstone and
rudstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
very light gray N8
Pelecypod floatstone and
rudstone with skeletal
wackestone, packstone or
grainstone matrix
Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly mollusks (Chione,
Turritella, Trachycardium,
Bellucina, Diodora, Muricid,
Brachidontes, Anomalocardia?)
benthic foraminifers (including
archaiasinids, peneroplids,
miliolids, Parasorites, soritids,
Amphistegina, Ammonia,
Elphidium, Androsina, rotaliforms),
peloids, ostracods; minor
quartz grains; trace echinoids
10-25 percent moldic,
5-15 percent intergrain,
irregular
separate and touching
vugs
Matrix moderate,
irregular
vugs low to very
high
Shallow
shelf
Sandy
pelecypod
floatstone and
rudstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
very light gray N8
Pelecypod floatstone and
rudstone with sandy
wackestone or packstone
matrix
Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly peloids, quartz sand,
pelecypods, skeletal fragments,
benthic foraminifers
5-20 percent skeletal
molds,
Matrix medium Shallow
shelf
Touching-vug
pelecypod
floatstone and
rudstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
very light gray N8
Pelecypod floatstone
and rudstone with peloid
and skeletal fragment
wackestone and packstone
matrix
Medium to very thickly
bedded
Mainly peloids, mollusks
(including Chione, Modulus,
Turritella, Codakia, Lucina,
Pecten, Diplodonta, Strombus?,
Pleuromeris, Carditimera,
Anadara, Glycymeris, Anodonita,
Cardium, Dosinia, Nucula, Turbo,
Glycymeris, Pecten?), skeletal
fragments, benthic foraminifers
(including soritids, archaiasinids,
miliolids, Ammonia, Parasorites,
Amphistegina, Elphidium,
peneroplids, rotaliforms,
Androsina), ostracods, echinoids;
trace Porites? coral
2-25 percent skeletal
moldic porosity, 5-100
percent separate and
touching vugs
Matrix medium,
vugs medium to
very high
Shallow
shelf
Sandy touchingvug
pelecypod
floatstone and
rudstone
  Pelecypod floatstone and
rudstone with
Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly peloids, quartz sand,
mollusks (including Chione,
Cerithium, Trachycardium,
Modulus, Turritella, Lucinisca),
skeletal fragments
5-20 percent skeletal
molds,
Matrix medium Shallow
shelf
Vuggy
wackestone and
packstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2 Peloid wackestone and
packstone
Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly peloids, benthic foraminifers
(including miliolids), gastropods;
minor to abundant quartz
grains
5-25 percent irregular
separate and touching
vugs
Matrix low, vugs
moderate to very
high
Shallow
shelf (mud
bank)
Quartz
sandstone and
skeletal
sandstone
Very pale orange 10YR 8/2,
very light gray N8
Skeletal sandstone Thickly to very thickly
bedded
Mainly quartz sand, peloids,
pelecypods, skeletal fragments,
gastropods
2-10 percent skeletal
molds
Matrix medium Shallow
shelf