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Index

Abiotic marine carbonate precipitation, 13 C factory, 17, 21, 22, 24, 27, 37, 48, 55, 63, 147
abyssal plain, 166 deepwater, 150
accommodation, 94 facies, 63, 64
accretionary slope, 45 geometry, 50
acicular cement, 14 growth potential, 24, 25
acoustic impedance, 126, 136, 173 marine cementation, 148
actualism, 63 production depth, 23, 24
aggradation, 106, 137 sequence, 147
aggradation potential, 24, 25 calcite, 6–8
Algeria, 49 calciturbidite, 117, 118
Antarctic Current,1,2,4 calcrete, 70, 99
Apennines, Italy, 131 caliche, 70
apron, 44 Canning Basin, 63, 155
aragonite, 6, 7, 135, 148 Cantor bar, 161
aragonite-calcite oscillations, 79 Cantor set, 27, 161
Atlantic, 28 carbon isotopes, 68, 69, 123, 124
Barents Sea, 154 carbonate build-up, 40
Mazagan platform, 124 carbonate compensation depth, 3, 5
Spitsbergen, 92 carbonate dissolution, 67
atoll, 51 carbonate factories, 21
attached ramp, 43, 59 carbonate grains, 36
Australia, 148 carbonate mineralogy, 6
Canning Basin, 155 carbonate platform, 41
Gulf of Carpentaria, 66 carbonate platform margin, 167
Shark Bay, 61 carbonate precipitation, 13, 20
southern margin, 49, 148, 150–152 abiotic, 13
autocycle, 73–75, 79 biotically controlled, 13
automicrite, 24, 26 biotically induced, 13
autotrophic, 14 carbonate production, 15, 167, 168
autotrophic organism, 9, 13, 14, 20 carbonate rocks
classification, 35
backstepping, 41, 42, 50, 125 carbonate shelf, 41
bafflestone, 36 carbonate systems tracts, 114
Bahamas, 30, 46, 61, 102, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 116, catch-up stage, 25
118, 133 Characean algae, 68
basin-basin fractionation, 3, 5 chemical erosion, 28
basin-floor fan, 85 chlorozoan association, 19
Belize, 29 clinoform, 50, 55
bindstone, 36 cold seep, 26
bioerosion, 31 condensed section, 88
biotically controlled precipitation, 14 cool-water carbonate, 18, 24
biotically induced precipitation, 20 correlative conformity, 101
bounding surface, 147, 152 current-amplification by topography, 32
box-counting technique, 163 cycle-stacking pattern, 101, 141
brackish environment, 59 cyclostratigraphy, 75
bucket principle, 39, 40
bundling of beds, 77 Darwin Point, 19
bypass slope, 44, 45 deepening trend, 111, 141, 144
depositional bias, 67, 105

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