Platform-Interior Carbonate Depositional Environments
Robert G. Loucks, Scott Rodgers, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson
Bureau of Economic Geology
 
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Enos, P., 1983, Shelf environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, eds., Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 267-295.

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 Rick Sarg, eds., Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy; Recent Advances and Applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 57, p. 3-41.

Hunter, R. E., 1977, Basic types of stratification in small eolian dunes: Sedimentology, v. 8, p. 361-387.

Inden, R. F., and C. H. Moore, 1983, Beach environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, eds., Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 211-265.

Kerans, C., and R. G. Loucks, 2002, Stratigraphic setting and controls on occurrence of ancient carbonate beach deposits: examples from the Lower Cretaceous of the Gulf of Mexico region: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 52, p. 517-526.

Loucks, R. G., and M. W. Longman, 1982, Lower Cretaceous Ferry Lake anhydrite, Fairway field, East Texas, in Handford, C. R., R. G. Loucks, and G. R. Davies, eds., Depositional and Diagenetic Spectra of Evaporites: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Core Workshop No. 3, p. 130-173.

Loucks, R. G., and W. C. Ward, 2001, Stratification and beach-to-dune transition in a Holocene carbonate eolianite complex, Isla Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, in Abegg, R. and M. Harris, eds., Modern and Ancient Carbonate Eolianites; Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis: SEPM Special Publication No. 71, p. 57-76.

McKee, D. E., and W. C. Ward, 1983, Eolian, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, eds., Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 131-170.

Ortí Cabo, F., and D. J. Shearman, 1977, Estructuras y fabricas deposicionales en las evaporitas del Miocene Superior (Messiniense) de San Miguel de Salinas (Alicante Espana): Institute de Investigalona, v. 32, p. 5-54.

Roberts, H. H., C. V. Phipps, and L. Effendi, 1987, Halimeda bioherms of the eastern Java Sea, Indonesia: Geology, v. 15, p. 371-374.

Rouchy, J. M., 1976, Les series evaporitiques du Miocene Superieur D’Espagne Meridionale: Laborataoire de Geologie du Musem National Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Schreiber, B. C., M. S. Roth, and M. L. Helman, 1983, Recognition of primary facies characteristics of evaporates and the differentiation of these forms from diagenetic overprints, in Handford, C. R., R. G. Loucks, and G. R. Davies, eds., Depositional and Diagenetic Spectra of Evaporites: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Core Workshop No. 3, p. 130-173.

Shinn, E. A., 1983, Tidal flat environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, eds., Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 171-210.

 
 
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Content and materials provided by authors Robert G. Loucks, Scott Rodgers, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson. Special assistance and additional materials were provided by Ursula Hammes and Ramon Trevino, 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.
 
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