GEOL 781: Carbonate Depositional Systems

DISCUSSION 1: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009: Peritidal carbonate cycles

Reading Assignments

Read at least one of the following and write a summary

1. Goldhammer, R.K., Dunn, P.A., and Hardie, L.A., 1990, Depositional cycles, composite sea-level changes, cycle stacking patterns, and the hierarchy of stratigraphic forcing; examples from Alpine Triassic platform carbonates: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 535-562.

2. Sadler, P.M., Osleger, D.A., and Montanez, I.P., 1993, On the labeling, length, and objective basis of Fischer plots: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 63, p. 360-368.

3. Wilkinson, B.H., Diedrich, N.W., Drummond, C.N., and Rothman, E.D., 1998, Michigan hockey, meteoric precipitation, and rhythmicity of accumulation on peritidal carbonate platforms: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1075-1093.

4. 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.

5. Hamon, Y., and Merzeraud, G., 2008, Facies architecture and cyclicity in a mosaic carbonate platform: effects of fault-block tectonics (Lower Lias, Causses platform, south-east France): Sedimentology, v. 55, p. 155-178.


Other references may be of your interest:

Grotzinger, J.P., 1986, Cyclicity and paleoenvironmental dynamics, Rocknest Platform, Northwest Canada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 97, p. 1208-1231.

Drummond, C.N., and Wilkinson, B.H., 1993, Aperiodic accumulation of cyclic peritidal carbonate: Geology, v. 21, p. 1023-1026.

McGinnis, J.P., Driscoll, N.W., Karner, G.D., Brumbaugh, W.D., and Cameron, N., 1993, Flexural response of passive margins to deep-sea erosion and slope retreat: Implications for relative sea-level change: Geology, v. 21, p. 893-896.

Wilkinson, B.H., Drummond, C.N., Diedrich, N.W., and Rothman, E.D., 1999, Poisson processes of carbonate accumulation on Paleozoic and Holocene platforms: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69, p. 338-350.

Tipper, J.C., 2000, Patterns of Stratigraphic Cyclicity: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 1262-1279.

5. Wilkinson, B.H., Merrill, G.K., and Kivett, S.J., 2003, Stratal order in Pennsylvanian cyclothems: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1068-1087.

Roth, S., and Reijmer, J.J.G., 2005, Holocene millennial to centennial carbonate cyclicity recorded in slope sediments of the Great Bahama Bank and its climatic implications: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 161-181.

Compare with the siliciclastic cycles, reading the following:
Zecchin, M., 2007, The architectural variability of small-scale cycles in shelf and ramp clastic systems: The controlling factors: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 84, p. 21-55.