Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Carbonate Platforms

ISBN-13: 9783540562313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 330 str.

Gianni Galli

Opis

Combining field research of outcrop geology with investigations of the recent formation of carbonate rocks in coastal environments, the author presents an introduction to sequence stratigraphy. Using computer simulations, the book focuses on four areas: the geometry of carbonate wedges; sequences comparable with geotectonic cycles; their influence by geoidal pulses; and the determination of these geoidal pulse distributions in geologic time.

Spis treści

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’.