Introduction to Carbonate Environments, Facies, and Facies Tracts
Robert G. Loucks, Charles Kerans, Xavier Janson, and Scott Rodgers
Bureau of Economic Geology
 
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Dunham, R. J., 1962, Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture, in W. E. Ham, ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 1, p. 108-121.

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Handford, C. R. and R. G. Loucks, 1993 , Carbonate depositional sequences and systems tracts—responses of carbonate platforms to relative sea-level change, in Loucks, R. G. and Sarg, Rick (eds.), Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy; Recent Advances and Applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 57, p. 3-41.

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James, N. P. and R. N. Ginsburg, 1979, The seawared margin of Belize barrier and atoll reefs: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication No 3, 191 p.

Kerans, Charles, and W. M. Fitchen, 1995, Sequence hierarchy and facies architecture of a carbonate-ramp system: San Andres Formation of Algerita Escarpment and western Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas and New Mexico: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 235, 86 p.

Lucia, F. J., 1999, Carbonate Reservoir Characterization: Springer, New York, 226 p.

Reeckmann, A. and G. M. Friedman, 1982, Exploration for carbonate petroleum reservoirs: John Wiley & Sons, New York, 213 p.

Wilson, J. L., 1975, Carbonate facies in geologic history: Springer-Verlag, New York, 471 p.

 
 
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Content and materials provided by authors Robert G. Loucks, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson. Special assistance and additional materials were provided by Ursula Hammes and Patricia Montoya, both of the Bureau of Economic Geology. This educational module was was created by the Bureau of Economic Geology under the direction of Scott Rodgers, Program Manager, Media Technologies. Flash graphics and programming, as well as other computer graphics, were provided by Paula Beard of the BEG Graphics Department. Interactive applet programming by Eric Jansson.
 
Special thanks to AGI and AAPG, whose support and input have made these instructional modules possible.
 

 


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