Platform-Margin, Slope, and Basinal Carbonate Depositional Environments
Robert G. Loucks, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson
Bureau of Economic Geology
 
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Ball, M. M., 1967, Carbonate sand bodies of Florida and the Bahamas: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 37, p. 556-591.

Bates, R. L., and J. A. Jackson (eds.), 1987, Glossary of Geology: American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, 788 p.

Cook, H. E., and H. T. Mullins, 1983, Basin margin environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, (eds.), Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 539-617.

Cook et al., 1972, Allochthonous carbonate debris flows at Devonian bank (reef) margins, Alberta, Canada: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geologists, v. 20, p. 439-497.

Crevello, P. D., 1978, Debris-flow deposits and turbidites in a modern carbonate basin, Exuma Sound, Bahamas: Coral Gables, Florida, University of Miami, M.S. thesis, 133 p.

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.

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Enos, P., and C. H. Moore, 1983, Fore-reef slope environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, (eds.), Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 507-537.

Halley, R. B., P. M. Harris, and A. C. Hine, 1983, Bank margin environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, (eds.), Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 463-506.

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James, N. P., 1983, Reef environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, (eds.), Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 345-440.

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

Land, L. S., and C. H. Moore, 1977, Deep forereef and upper island slope, north Jamaica, in Frost, S. H., M. P. Weiss, and J. B. Saunders (eds.), Reefs and Related Carbonates—Ecology and Sedimentology: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, No. 4, p. 53-65.

McIlreath, I. A., and N. P. James, 1978, Facies models 12; carbonate slopes, in R. G. Walker (ed.), Facies Models: Geoscience Canada Reprint Series 1, p. 133-149.

Mullins, H. T., G. H. Keller, J. W. Kofoed, D. N. Lambert, W. L. William, and J. E. Warme, 1982, Geology of Great Abaco submarine canyon (Blake Plateau); observations from the research submersible "Alvin": Marine Geology, v. 48, p. 239-257.

Mullins, H. T., and A. C. Neumann, 1979, Deep carbonate bank margin structure and sedimentation in the northern Bahamas: SEPM Special Publication No. 27, p. 165-192.

Neumann, A. C., J. W. Kofoed, and G. H. Keller, 1977, Lithoherms in the Straits of Florida: Geology, v. 5, p. 4-10.

Scholle, P. A., M. A. Arthur, and A. A. Ekdale, 1983 Pelagic environment, in Scholle, P. A., D. G. Bebout, and C. H. Moore, (eds.), Carbonate Depositional Environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 33, p. 620-691.

 
 
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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.
 
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