Marine carbonate factories: review and update

JJG Reijmer - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The carbonate factories model, as defined at the beginning of the century, provides a
subdivision of marine carbonate sediment production‐systems based on the style of …

Sequence stratigraphy: methodology and nomenclature

O Catuneanu, WE Galloway, CGSC Kendall… - Newsletters on …, 2011 - folia.unifr.ch
The recurrence of the same types of sequence stratigraphic surface through geologic time
defines cycles of change in accommodation or sediment supply, which correspond to …

Types of carbonate platforms: a genetic approach

L Pomar - Basin research, 2001 - earthdoc.org
Many types of carbonate platforms have been described, from homoclinal ramps to rimmed
shelves and a full spectrum of variations in between; the distinction between these different …

Depositional controls on mixed carbonate–siliciclastic cycles and sequences on gently inclined shelf profiles

M Zeller, K Verwer, GP Eberli, JL Massaferro… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between carbonate production and siliciclastic input produces mixed systems
that typically contain a very high degree of lateral and vertical facies heterogeneity. This …

Steep microbial boundstone-dominated platform margins—examples and implications

JAM Kenter, PMM Harris, G Della Porta - Sedimentary Geology, 2005 - Elsevier
Seaward progradation of several kilometers has been documented mostly for leeward
margin low-angle carbonate slope systems with a dominant platform top sediment source …

Facies and reservoir-quality variations in the late Visean to Bashkirian outer platform, rim, and flank of the Tengiz buildup, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan

JF Collins, JAM Kenter, PM Harris, G Kuanysheva… - 2006 - archives.datapages.com
Tengiz field is an isolated carbonate buildup in the southeastern Precaspian Basin,
containing a succession of shallow-water platforms ranging in age from late Famennian to …

Depositional facies and stratal geometry of an Upper Carboniferous prograding and aggrading high‐relief carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, N Spain)

G Della Porta, JAM Kenter, JR Bahamonde - Sedimentology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic‐scale continuous exposures of an Upper Carboniferous (Bashkirian–Moscovian)
carbonate platform (N Spain) provide detailed information about the lithofacies and stratal …

Microbial boundstone dominated carbonate slope (Upper Carboniferous, N Spain): microfacies, lithofacies distribution and stratal geometry

G Della Porta, JAM Kenter, JR Bahamonde… - Facies, 2003 - Springer
The Carboniferous, particularly during the Serpukhovian and Bashkirian time, was a period
of scarce shallow-water calcimicrobial-microbialite reef growth. Organic frameworks …

Tracing clastic delivery to the Permian Delaware Basin, USA: Implications for paleogeography and circulation in westernmost equatorial Pangea

GS Soreghan, MJ Soreghan - Journal of …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Guadalupe Mountains of the southwestern US (New Mexico–West Texas) expose the
shelf edge of the Permian Delaware Basin, which formed near the western edge of the …

Syndepositional deformation features in high-relief carbonate platforms: long-lived conduits for diagenetic fluids

DA Budd, EL Frost III… - Journal of …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Syndepositional faults and fractures are known to affect early fluid flow in carbonate
platforms. Less clear is whether they are active fluid conduits throughout the entire history of …