Page 250 - Carbonate Platforms Facies, Sequences, and Evolution

© 1990 The International Association of Sedimentologists ISBN: 978-0-632-02758-3 James Lee Wilson, Paul D. Crevello, J. Rick Sarg, J. Fred Read Carbonate Platforms: Facies, Sequences and Evolution Edited by Maurice E. Tucker, predicting trends of carbonate reservoir development in both North Africa and the Middle East. large oil fields in central and southern Mexico. The Mesozoic of Mexico can be used as a model for Jurassic oolite, Cretaceous reefs and forereef debris furnish excellent reservoir rock and provide

and
debris
and
rimmed
into
may
the
have
platforms
been
but
Chicontepec
their
moved
Basin
east
L.
trends
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structural controls on
and
against
separating
a
WILSON
orientations
coastward
in early Mesozoic time,
are
the platforms.
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controlled
left-lateral,
continuation
middle Cretaceous the Sabinas Basin was
of
The smaller El
partly
the
by
Mesozoic carbonate facies in
Ouachita­
This
Doctor and
northwest-directed
tectonic
This orogenic belt may have a western
encircled by reefy
-S directed tectonic