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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wōdejebato (section Platform carbonates and reefs)
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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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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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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Limalok (section Platform carbonates and reefs)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Carnian-Norian basin-platform system of the Martuljek Mountain Group (Julian Alps, Slovenia): Progradation of the Dachstein carbonate platform". Geologica Carpathica...
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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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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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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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Triassic dolomites are considered to be a classic example of ancient carbonate platforms. As the allochthonous elements in the Shale strata (Cipit boulders)...
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regional uplift at the foreland, which caused the emergence of a broad carbonate platform in the eastern Hyblean Plateau. During the Messinian of late Miocene...
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shallow water carbonate platforms (Hettangian-lower Sinemurian) that progressively backstepped toward the basin margins, to more localized platform development...
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Jesus; Lindhorst, Sebastian (June 2024). "Changes in mesophotic carbonate‐platform export across the end of the last glacial cycle (Saya de Malha Bank...
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north. In addition, the Gilmer Limestone member also represents a carbonate platform with oolite shoals that lie beneath central Upshur and western Smith...
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Limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite...
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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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(1) Zimgarn was still undergoing cratonisation when an extensive carbonate platform developed over Vaalbara; (2) the magmatic signatures are different...
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