Introduction to Carbonate Environments, Facies, and Facies Tracts
Robert G. Loucks, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson
Bureau of Economic Geology
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| GENERALIZED CARBONATE DEPOSITIONAL MODEL This generalized carbonate platform model displays the relative position of major carbonate depositional systems and associated depositional environments. |
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Depositional
environments are not randomly distributed but form in response
to well-organized physical, biological, and chemical processes.
Therefore, predictable patterns of depositional environments develop.
The generalized platform model is simplified as to the control
of relative sea-level changes on the placement of the different
depositional environments. The reader can refer to Handford and
Loucks (1993) for a basic discussion on relative sea-level changes
on carbonate systems tracts. |
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