GEOL462 Reading assignments for carbonate cycles

GEOL 462: Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Reading assignments for carbonate cycles

We will discuss these papers on March 17, Tuesday. You may also want to read some of them for your final project.

1. Beavington-Penney, S.J., Wright, V.P., and Racey, A., 2006, The Middle Eocene Seeb Formation of Oman: An Investigation of Acyclicity, Stratigraphic Completeness, and Accumulation Rates in Shallow Marine Carbonate Settings: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 1137-1161.

2. Benedictis, D.D., Bosence, D.A.N., and Waltham, D., 2007, Tectonic control on peritidal carbonate parasequence formation: an investigation using forward tectono-stratigraphic modelling: Sedimentology, v. 54, p. 587-605.

3. Spence, G.H., and Tucker, M.E., 2007, A Proposed Integrated Multi-Signature Model for Peritidal Cycles in Carbonates: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 797-808.

4. Burgess, P.M., 2008, The nature of shallow-water carbonate lithofacies thickness distributions: Geology, v. 36, p. 235-238.

5. Soreghan, G.S., and Dickinson, W.R., 1994, Generic types of stratigraphic cycles controlled by eustasy: Geology, v. 22, p. 759-761.

6. Mallarino, G., Goldstein, R.H., and Di Stefano, P., 2002, New approach for quantifying water depth applied to the enigma of drowning of carbonate platforms: Geology, v. 30, p. 783-786.