GEOL 781: Carbonate Depositional Systems

DISCUSSION topic: Keep up, catch up, give up and the drowning of carbonate platforms

Reading Assignment

Read one or two of the following papers to write the summary

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

      2. Schlager, W., 1999, Scaling of sedimentation rates and drowning of reefs and carbonate platforms: Geology, v. 27, p. 183-186.

      3. Szulczewski, M., Belka, Z., and Skompski, S., 1996, The drowning of a carbonate platform: an example from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the southwestern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: Sedimentary Geology, v. 106, p. 21-49.

      4. 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.

      5. 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.

Other references may be of your interest (You can choose one of the following to write your summary as well)
      Drzewiecki, P.A., and Simo, J.A., 1997, Carbonate platform drowning and oceanic anoxic events on a Mid-Cretaceous carbonate platform, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 698-714.
      Fouke, B.W., Zwart, E.W., Everts, A.-J.W., and Schlager, W., 1995, Carbonate platform stratal geometries and the question of subaerial exposure: Sedimentary Geology, v. 97, p. 9-19.
      Colombie, C., and Strasser, A., 2005, Facies, cycles, and controls on the evolution of a keep-up carbonate platform (Kimmeridgian, Swiss Jura): Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 1207-1227.
       Allen, P.A., Burgess, P.M., Galewsky, J., and Sinclair, H.D., 2001, Flexural-eustatic numerical model for drowning of the Eocene perialpine carbonate ramp and implications for Alpine geodynamics: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1052-1066.
       Schlager, W., 2004, Fractal nature of stratigraphic sequences: Geology, v. 32, p. 185-188.
       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.