The three types of wackestones have different abundances of components. W1 and W2 are very similar, the only difference being the greater abundance of sponge spicules and finer grain size in W2. W3 is very distinctive because of the abundance of nannofossils in the matrix and its light gray to white color in the core. W1 and W2 contain few grains derived from the shelf (very fine silt to very fine sand-sized grains of brownish skeletal grains; some recognizable mollusk, ostracodes, and echinoid plates; and abraded benthic foraminifers) and more sediments derived from the water column and slope (coarse silt- and sand-sized grains mostly well-preserved planktonic and some benthic foraminifers and finer-grain sponge spicules and tunicates).
The packstone lithologies (P1 and P2) show greater abundance and coarser abraded skeletal grains (some brown), better sorting, and coarser grain size if compared with the wackestone lithologies. Quartz grains become a common component in these lithofacies. The differences between P1 and P2 are in the grain size. P3 is unique in the good sorting grain size (it is the coarsest lithology) and the high abundance of both skeletal grains and planktonic foraminifers. Comparing packstone and wackestone lithofacies, the wackestones include few neritic sediment components than the packstones.