Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Carbonate Platforms

✍ Scribed by Dr. Gianni Galli (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 46
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Combining field research of outcrop geology and investigating the recent formation of carbonate rocks in coastal environments the author gives an introduction in sequence stratigraphy. Using computer simulations the book focuses on four questions, regarding the geometry of carbonate wedges, sequences comparable with geotectonic cycles, their influence by geoidal pulses and the determination of these geoidal pulse distribution in geological time. Examples from the Alps and Florida show that ramps and divergent patterns, megabreccias, drowning of carbonate platforms etc. are results of global short-term sea level falls, interpreted as geoidal eustasy. This volume will be a fruitful supplement for the interpretation and understanding of sequence stratigraphic sections not only for scientists and students but also for researchers in the oil andgas industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-6
Introduction....Pages 7-11
Facies belts....Pages 12-40
Geometries of intrashelf ramps....Pages 41-50
Sequence stratigraphy....Pages 51-59
Mechanisms of formation of onlap ramps....Pages 60-68
Fort Thompson formation, pleistocene, Florida platform....Pages 69-96
“Calcari Grigi” formation, Jurasic, Venetian Alps....Pages 97-129
Devonian carbonate platform, Carnic Alps, Italy....Pages 130-148
‘Capo Rizzuto’ shoreline sequence, pleistocene....Pages 149-153
Computer simulation of clastic wedges....Pages 155-180
Slope carbonates (cretaceous-paleocene), Gargano massif....Pages 181-222
Middle triassic carbonate buildups, dolomites....Pages 223-228
Modal sequence....Pages 230-232
Short-term sea-level falls: An indicator of geoidal pulses?....Pages 234-280
Relativistic distribution of ‘sevent horizonsr’....Pages 282-299

✦ Subjects

Sedimentology; Geology; Computer Applications in Geosciences