Abstract
For marine carbonates, an overwhelming amount of information exists in a variety of specialized journals addressing marine geochemistry and carbon cycling, as well as in many books summarizing the state of knowledge on this topic. Therefore it would be far beyond the scope of this chapter to try to completely review what is known about marine calcareous sediments and their diagenesis. On the other hand, although intensively investigated since the previous century (e.g. Murray 1897), marine carbonates have gained increasing attention by marine biologists, geochemists, paleoceanographers and paleoclimatologists over the last three decades. Among other reasons this is because marine carbonates, together with the oceanic CO2-carbonic acid-system, act as a sink or source of carbon within the global carbon cycle which has become a key topic of investigation and modelling related to the role of the greenhouse gas CO in future global climate change.
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