Carbonate platforms : facies, sequences, and evolution / / edited by Maurice E. Tucker [and four others]

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Blackwell Scientific Publications, , 1990; ©1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 552.58
• Soggetto topico: Carbonate rocks; Sedimentation and deposition; Tethys (Paleogeography)
• Persona (resp. second.): TuckerMaurice E.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Carbonate deposition during early rifting: the Cambrian of Sardinia and the Triassic-Jurassic of Tuscany, Italy; Geometry and evolution of platform-margin bioclastic shoals, late Dinantian (Mississippian), Derbyshire, UK; Cyclic sedimentation in carbonate and mixed carbonate-clastic environments: four simulation programs for a desktop computer; Middle Triassic carbonate ramp systems in the Catalan Basin, northeast Spain: facies, systems tracts, sequences and controls ; Stages in the evolution of late Triassic and Jurassic carbonate platforms: the western margin of the Subalpine Basin (Ardeche, France)The formation and drowning of isolated carbonate seamounts: tectonic and ecological controls in the northern Apennines; Controls on Upper Jurassic carbonate buildup development in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal; Hauterivian to Lower Aptian carbonate shelf sedimentation and sequence stratigraphy in the Jura and northern Subalpine chains (southeastern France and Swiss Jura); Basement structural controls on Mesozoic carbonate facies in northeastern Mexico-a review ; The Aptian-Albian carbonate episode of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (northern Spain): general characteristics, controls and evolutionEvolution of the Arabian carbonate platform margin slope and its response to orogenic closing of a Cretaceous ocean basin, Oman; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of 11 papers on Carbonate Sedimentology which discusses case histories from Europe and the Middle East. Each case history comprises a description and interpretation of carbonate facies, their sequences and tectonic controls.
• Titolo autorizzato: Carbonate platforms
• ISBN: 1-282-17151-8; 9786612171512; 1-4443-0383-X; 1-4443-0384-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830797403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; ; Number 9.