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This book documents and interprets the onshore Cenozoic temperate carbonate depositional system along the southern margin of Australia.� These strata, deposited in four separate basins, together with the extensive modern marine system offshore, comprise the largest such cool-water carbonate system on the globe.� The approach is classic and comparative but the information is a synthesis of recent research and new information.� A brief section of introduction outlines the setting, modern comparative sedimentology offshore, and structure of the Cenozoic onshore.� The core of the book is a detailed analysis and illustration of the four Eocene to Pleistocene successions.�� Deposits range from temperate carbonates, to biosiliceous spiculites, to marginal marine siliciclastics.� Each unit is interpreted, as much as possible, based on our understanding of the modern offshore depositional system.� A subsequent part concentrates on diagenesis both before and after the late Miocene uplift.� It turns out that alteration in the two packages is entirely different.�� The preceding attributes of each succession are then interpreted on the basis of controlling factors such as tectonics, oceanography, climate, and glaciation of nearby Antarctica.� This research has revealed new implications for the interpretation of specific attributes of cool-water carbonate sedimentology that could only be discovered from the rock record.� Insights concerning cyclicity, reef mounds, biosiliceous deposition, and trophic resources are detailed in the next section.� The concluding part focuses on global comparisons, especially the Mediterranean and New Zealand.Typham this is the title: Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks in a Cold, Cenozoic Ocean Neritic Southern Australia