Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Carbonate Platforms

by Galli, Gianni

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Full title :Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Carbonate Platforms / by Gianni Galli.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Place of Publication:Berlin, Heidelberg
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783540474869, 3540474862
DOI:10.1007/BFb0011060
oclc:ocn259624661
LC Classification:QE471.15.C3
Dewey Decimal:552/.58

Facies belts -- Geometries of intrashelf ramps -- Sequence stratigraphy -- Mechanisms of formation of onlap ramps -- Fort Thompson formation, pleistocene, Florida platform -- "Calcari Grigi" formation, Jurasic, Venetian Alps -- Devonian carbonate platform, Carnic Alps, Italy -- 'Capo Rizzuto' shoreline sequence, pleistocene -- Computer simulation of clastic wedges -- Slope carbonates (cretaceous-paleocene), Gargano massif -- Middle triassic carbonate buildups, dolomites -- Modal sequence -- Short-term sea-level falls: An indicator of geoidal pulses? -- Relativistic distribution of 'sevent horizonsr'.