Carbonate Platform
Question Set
- How do carbonate platforms
respond to changes in relative sea level?
- What are ideal conditions
for shallow carbonate growth and how is this represented in carbonate deposits?
- What are the four basic
types of platform morphologies and give an example of each?
- What are the main cycles
associated with the carbonate platform stratigraphic successions?
- How do oceanographic processes
such as tides, waves, etc. effect the carbonate factory?
Index to carbonate shelf sediments below or to link back to USC website on sequence stratigraphy click here