Page 44 - 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 39 Carbonate Platforms: Facies, Sequences and Evolution Edited by Maurice E. Tucker, Street, Cambridge, CB4 lAJ, UK. t Present Manchester M13 9PL, UK. equator, and as a result, shallow siliciclastic-starved *Present address: Department of Geology, The University, situated During late Dinantian times, northern England was In the literature on both ancient and modern car- eu

such
it
in
sand
has
belt
depositional
address:
hydrocarbon
been
bodies
(e.g. Tucker,
association
systems
(e.g.
shown
Cambridge
of large-scale
studied in
with
reservoirs
such
L.
Ball,
that
as
bedform development.
modern
bioclastic
tidal
1967;
and host
Carbonates,
shorelines
sand
ramps,
22
base
Hine,
and
regime
shoals
shelf
metal
1985). Carbonate sands have
rimmed
George
and
1977;
environments
GAWTHOR PE*
and
Thames Polytechnic,
developed
P.
These bedforms commonly
at
The
clastic
bonate
the
Particular
attention.
Dinantian
association
sand
overlie
predominantly
objective
with
northern
bodies
attention
of
bioclastic-carbonate
immediately
the
oolitic
to
will
this
have
margin
(Mississippian)
GUT TER IDGE t
sand
of
GEOLOGICAL
be
the
age
the
paper
University of Durham, Durham DHJ 3LE,
body
northern
paid
received
south
is
Big/and Street, London El 2NG,
composition,
ution of these carbonate sand bodies.
to
of
which
to
UK
SETTING
margin
the
UK; and
complex
the
Derbyshire
emergence surfaces and probably
relatively
whereas
of
of
formed
late Dinantian
describe
sands there is a bias towards those with
bio­
geometry, facies variations and controls on the evol­
palaeo­
little
a
in
the
internal
a
late
seas were dominated by carbonate deposition. The
Derbyshire carbonate platform in northern England.
Derbyshire carbonate platform was one of several