Geological Society Special Publication No. 149,London,1999. — 461 p. — ISBN 10: 1862390258
Carbonate Ramps provides an up to date understanding of the most widespread platform type in the geological record. It contains a series of papers on the sedimentology and modelling of ancient and modern tropical to temperate environments where shallow water carbonate-rich sediments are formed. Carbonate Ramps includes new reviews of southern Arabian Gulf shallow water deposits, the Brazilian coast, northern UK shelf, as well as, studies of Tertiary to Ordovician ramp systems. With contributors coming from 8 countries and examples discussed from 13 countries this is a particularly comprehensive book.Contents:
WRIGHT, V. P. & BuRCHETTE. T. P. Carbonate ramps: an introduction
AHR, W. M. Carbonate ramps 1973-1996: a historical review
KIRKHAM, A. A Quaternary proximal foreland ramp and its continental fringe,Arabian Gulf, UAE
WALKDEN, G. & WILLIAMS, A. Carbonate ramps and the Pleistocene-Recent depositional systems of the Arabian Gulf
TESTA, V. & BosENCE, D. W. J. Carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation on a high-energy,ocean-facing, tropical ramp, NE Brazil
LIGHT, J. M. & WILSON, J. B. Cool-water carbonate deposition on the West Shetland Shelf: a modern distally steepened ramp
READ, J. F. Phanerozoic carbonate ramps from greenhouse, transitional and ice-house worlds: clues from field and modelling studies
AURELL, M., BÁDENAS, B., BOSENCE, D. w. J. & WALTHAM, D. A. Carbonate production and offshore transport on a Late Jurassic carbonate ramp (Kimmeridgian, lberian basin, NE Spain): evidence from outcrops and computer modelling
PEDLEY, M. A review of sediment distributions and processes in Oligo-Miocene ramps of Southern Italy and Malta (Mediterranean divide)
GILHAM, R. F. & BRISTOW, C. S. Facies architecture and geometry of a prograding carbonate ramp during the early stages of foreland basin evolution: Lower Eocene sequences, Sierra del Cadí, SE Pyrenees, Spain
SINCLAIR, H. D., SAYER, Z. R. & TucKER, M. E. Carbonate sedimentation during early foreland basin subsidence: the Eocene succession of the French Alps
GóMEZ-PÉREZ, 1., FERNÁNDEZ-MENDIOLA, P. A. & GARCÍA-MONDÉJAR, J. Constructional dynamics for a Lower Cretaceous carbonate ramp ( Gorbea Massif, N lberia)
BACHMANN, M. & Kuss, J. The Middle Cretaceous carbonate ramps of the northern Sinai: sequence stratigraphy and facies distribution
AZEREDO, A. C. Geometry and facies dynamics of Middle Jurassic carbonate ramp sandbodies, West-Central Portugal
HIPS, K. Lower Triassic storm-dominated ramp sequence in northern Hungary: an example of evolution from homoclinal through distally steepened ramp to Middle Triassic flat-topped platform
TöRöK, Á. Controls on development of Mid-Triassic ramps: examples from southern Hungary
LASEMI, Z., NORBY, R. D. & TREWORGY, J. D. Depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy of a Lower Carboniferous bryozoan-crinoidal carbonate ramp in the Illinois Basin, mid-continent USA
WENDT, J. & KAUFMANN, B. Mud buildups on a Middle Devonian carbonate ramp (Algerian Sahara)
KAUFMANN, B. Middle Devonian reef and mud mounds on a carbonate ramp: Mader Basin ( eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)
CHOI, Y. S. & SIMO, J. A. Ramp facies and sequence stratigraphic models in an epeiric sea:the Upper Ordovician mixed carbonate/siliciclastic Glenwood and Platteville Formations, Wisconsin, USA
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