Page 8 - Carbonate Platforms Facies, Sequences, and Evolution

to
on
the
and
from
sand
many
lished
cycles
preted
posium
forcing
strongly
quences
Tethyan
of
the
additions.
Mondejar
Cambrian
organized
Carbonate
carbonate
in
carbonate
developed
on
studies
companion
Gutteridge
Tertiary,
Derbyshire,
shoals
depositional
and
Tuscany
the
in
by
environments.
of
and
and
poster sessions.
western margin
in
The papers in
subject held
and
region.
James L. Wilson.
from
by Calvet,
of
sand
controlled
Platform
on
mechanism.
platform
central
and Watts
systems
papers
by the Society
carbonate
describe
control is argued for,
to Special
Middle
Italy,
mixed
many
by
Triassic
and
of
body
shallow-water
Professors
rift-related
Elmi
Tucker
were
Cocozza
tracts,
the Isle
&
where
Carboniferous
derive
England,
Basin
Triassic
&
& Blome,
platforms
the Dinantian
lateral
but
Bruno
rather than
sea-level
Publication
a
settings.
Economic
carbonates
from
and
describes
presented
D'
cycles,
were
carbonate,
of Capri
44,
Henton
where
platform-margin
the Subalpine Basin
(Triassic-Jurassic)
Gandin
carbonate
in
in
the
from
carbonate-clastic
strong
changes.
basins,
studies
orally
Development,
Argenio
1981
(Muschelkalk)
facies,
from
progradation
in
Controls
Gawthorpe
Walkden
or
terms
presented
(Mississippian)
This multi-national symposium de­
pub­
this book are concerned with car­
1987 Los Angeles SEPM Research Sym­
Gandin, Elmi, Bice & Stewart, Ellis et al., Garcia­
car­
bonate ramps in the Catalan Basin, Spain, are inter­
se­
Six of the papers in this book, those by Cocozza &
where
in
in size for the sake of economy. Both volumes stem
on
&
the Los Angeles meeting and the others are recent
This collection of papers on carbonate platforms is a
and
rived from an international Penrose Conference on
at
and
and Mineralogists in 1989. The latter was restricted
&
Paleontologists
the
bringing together many decades of field observations
are
compare
Ardeche
Walkden present four computer models to simulate
bonate platforms and sequences from the Cambrian
in France,
Based
tectonic
the
a simple eustatic
deep-water
of
platforms
of
bioclastic
(deltaic
Sardinia
7
J.
J.
Preface
and
larly
ences
result
chains
Oman.
factors.
erozoic
eustatic
the
for
PAUL D.
of
platform
platform
JAMES L.
of
sequence
drowning
formation
Lusitanian
A
Apennines
Leinfelder.
and
small-scale
approach to
as
of
of
a
topical
to this problem.
the
orbital
sea-level
Basin
WILSON,
deducing
cycles,
evolution.
sequences
CREVELLO,
tectonic,
Italy,
of
issue
result
isolated
as
RICK SARG, Midland,
forcing
demonstrate
of
One
basement faults.
Bice
changes
here
eustasy.
FRED READ, Blacksburg,
in
well
the
&
is
Littleton,
Arnaud-Vanneau
Portugal
Texas,
MAURICE E. TucKER, Durham,
commonly
The
as
the
major
&
by
platforms
New Braunfels,
UK
tectonism
stratigraphy-depositional
USA
Virginia,
Many of
as well as
described in this
Stewart
effects
whether
and
Ellis,
eustatic
Colorado,
and
the
of
Texas,
problem
importance
Arnaud
USA
sea-level curve is unacceptable these days,
book
they
of
of
systems
their
Milankovitch
USA
lower Cretaceous (Urgonian)
USA
describe
are
control
Wilson
apply
Mexico. Finally, Watts & Blome describe the conse­
car­
of carbonate platforms and their facies in the Phan­
is distinguishing between these two overriding con­
tectonic influ­
structure on carbonate facies patterns are also docu­
particu­
Jurassic carbonate buildups is documented from the
trols. An uncritical application of the Vail-Haq et al.
&
on
the
later
from a classic area of limestone scenery. From the
and many illustrate the large-scale roles of
tectonics and eustatic sea-level changes (second and
carbonate platform margin from the Cretaceous of
The papers in this book clearly show the diversity
or some other mechanism (tectonic or sedimentary).
shallowing-upward,
third order) in controlling broad facies patterns and
course
tracts
bonate platform of the Jura and northern Subalpine
a
ecological
mented by Wilson from the Mesozoic of northeastern
quences of closure of an ocean basin on an adjacent
basement
major
contain
band
the
Critical field observations and imaginative computer
modelling are likely to make important contributions
producing sea-level changes (fourth and fifth order)
carbonate