Abstract
This paper cites evidence to show that the Organic content of Recent carbonate facies is as readily preserved by entombment as it is in the torrigenous facies and that there is little difference in composition or proportion of organic constituents in terrigenous and some types of carbonate facies. The variations in organic content with grain size follow those for terrigenous facies. Organic constituents in Recent limey sediments are at least as reduced as they are in terrigenous facies. The tendency toward reduction of organic constituents to petroleum bitumens and petroleum is just as obvious and as rapid as in terrigenous. Thus it is quite possible for syngenetic petroleum to be entombed in appropriate carbonate facies.—B. N. Cooper
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