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    A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits. Platform growth is...
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  • The Apulia Carbonate Platform in Apulia, Italy, was a major palaeogeographic element of the southern margin of the Mesozoic Tethys Ocean. It is one of...
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    The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost...
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    post-Ordovician rocks of the South American Platform are examples of an orthoplatform. Carbonate platform East European Platform List of shields and cratons Nagornji...
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  • through volcanic eruptions. The volcano was eventually covered by a carbonate platform resembling that of a present-day atoll which was colonized by a number...
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  • consequent rise of the carbonate compensation depth (CCD) and a crisis of carbonate precipitation (e.g. demise of carbonate platforms in the western Tethys)...
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    shape, carbonate productivity, etc.). Autocycles show limited stratigraphic continuity. An example of autocyclic sedimentation on a carbonate platform was...
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    subsequently flattened by erosion. Carbonate deposition commenced, forming an atoll-like structure and a carbonate platform. The platform emerged above sea level...
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    structure, covering the former island with carbonates and thus a second carbonate platform. The second carbonate platform drowned about 68 million years ago (in...
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    The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms located in the archipelago of The Bahamas within the Lucayan Archipelago. The term is usually applied...
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    eroded and thereby flattened, and a carbonate platform formed on it during the Paleocene and Eocene. These carbonates were chiefly produced by red algae...
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  • industry Platform (Australian art group), an artists group based in Melbourne Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq Carbonate platform, a type...
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    represents the remnants of a local massive Siliciclastic-Carbonate platform ("Tafraout Platform"), best assigned to succession W-E of alluvial environment...
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    Mona passage, all the islands except for Saint Croix lie on the same carbonate platform and insular shelf, known as the Puerto Rico Bank, and same tectonic...
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    de Puerto Rico), also known as the Puerto Rican Bank (PRB), is a carbonate platform and insular shelf comprising the archipelagos of Puerto Rico and the...
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    normal faults. During the Early Cretaceous–Paleocene, a mixed clastic-carbonate platform developed across the area of present-day Maracaibo Basin. Thermal...
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    into the basin. The Central Basin Platform (CBP) is a tectonically uplifted basement block capped by a carbonate platform. The CBP separates the Delaware...
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    Middle and High Atlas of Morocco, being the remnant of a local massive Carbonate platform, and known mostly for its rich tracksites (up to 1350 tracks in 1988)...
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  • record. In Montenegro, Lower Jurassic carbonate deposits are seen intermittently along the Adriatic Carbonate Platform extending from Herzegovina into the...
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    dolomite deposited on top of a huge Bahama-type carbonate platform, while a few kilometers thick carbonate successions have been deformed during the Alpine...
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    impact. The site of the crater at the time of impact was a marine carbonate platform. The water depth at the impact site varied from 100 meters (330 ft)...
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  • This unit represents the major depositional record of the Adriatic Carbonate platform (and more or less to the margin of Greater Adria), being known for...
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    kilometres (60 mi) south of western Cyprus. Unlike most seamounts, it is a carbonate platform, not a volcano. It is a large, submerged massif, about 120 by 80 kilometres...
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    formation found in South China. It was deposited on a shallow marine carbonate platform. Listed by ascending age: The Hamajing Member is characterized by...
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    the reef. Serranilla Bank is a former atoll, now a mostly submerged carbonate platform consisting of shallow reef environments. It is about 40 kilometres...
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  • dominated by a wide and shallow carbonate platform within a lagoon between the shore and a string of reefs. This carbonate platform is nowadays preserved as...
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    except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix, all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular shelf, the Puerto Rico Bank, between the North Atlantic...
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    of complex life. These sandy mudflats gave way about 550 Ma to a carbonate platform which lasted for the next 300 million years of Paleozoic time. The...
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    was slow; in the northern Tethys, carbonate platforms in the TJME's aftermath became dominated by microbial carbonate producers and r-selected calcitic...
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    to the southward migration of many taxa through the Zechstein Sea. Carbonate platform deposits in Hungary and Hydra show no sign of an extinction event...
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