Special Publication #89

Controls on Carbonate Platform and Reef Development
Editors: Jeff Lukasik and J.A. (Toni) Simo

Introduction

• Controls on development of Phanerozoic carbonate platforms and reefs - introduction and synthesis Jeff Lukasik and J.A. (Toni) Simo

Global Perspectives on Carbonate Platform Development

• The Carbonate Analogs Through Time (CATT) hypothesis and the global atlas of carbonate fields - a systematic and predictive look at the Phanerozoic carbonate systems James R. Markello, Richard B. Koepnick, Lowell E. Waite and Joel F. Collins
• The suble thief: selective dissolution of aragonite during shallow burial and the implications for carbonate sedimentology V. Paul Wright and Lesley Cherns

Tectonic Controls

• Tectonic and depositional controls on syn-rift carbonate platform sedimentation Steven L. Dorobek
• Tectono-sedimentary models for rift-basin carbonate systems Nigel E. Cross and Dan W.J. Bosence
• Controls on Upper Cretaceous ( Maastrichtian) heterozoan carbonate platforms developed on salt diapirs, La Popa Basin, NE Mexico Katherine A. Giles, Dominic C. Druke, David W. Mercer and Lela Hunnicutt-Mack
• Evaluating structural controls on the formation and properties of Carboniferous carbonate reservoirs in the northern Midcontinent U.S.A. W. Lynn Watney, Evan K. Franseen, Alan P. Byrnes and Susan E. Nissen
• Upper Mississippian Antler Foreland Basin carbonate and siliciclastic rocks, east-central Idaho and southwestern Montana, U.S.A.: distinquishing tectonic and eustatic controls on deposition Liselle S. Batt, Michael C. Pope, Peter E. Isaacson, Isabel Montañez and Jason Abplanalp
• Tectonic controls on Oligocene carbonate platform-basin deposition, Costa Blanca, southeast Spain Michelle Stoklosa and J.A. (Toni) Simo

Environmental Controls (Oceanography, Climate, Trophic Resources, Temperature)

• Architecture of carbonate platforms: a response to hydrodynamics and evolving ecology Luis Pomar and Christopher G. St. C. Kendall
• Lateral variabilities of cycle stacking patterns in the Latemár, Triassic, Italian Dolomites Arndt Peterhänsel and Sven O. Egenhoff
• Carbonate-biosiliceous sedimentation in Early Oligocene estuaries during a time of global change, Port Willunga Formation, St. Vincent Basin, southern Australia Noel P. James and Yvonne Bone
• Post-Turonian rudist-bearing limestones of the peri-Tethyan region: evolution of the sedimentary patterns and lithofacies in the context of global versus regional controls Gabriele Carannante, Antonietta Cherchi, Roberto Graziano, Daniela Ruberti and Lucia Simone
• Nutrient-gradient controls on Devonian reefs: insight from the ramp-situated Alexandra Reef System (Frasnian), northwest Territories, Canada Alex J. MacNeil and Brian Jones
• Magnetic susceptibility, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy: insight into Devonian carbonate platform development and basin infilling, western Alberta, Canada Michael T. Whalen and James E. (Jed) Day

Improved Characterization of Carbonate Platforms and Reefs

• Remote sensing and comparative geomorphology of Holocene carbonate depositional systems Eugene C. Rankey and Paul M. (Mitch) Harris
• Modern isolated carbonate platforms: templates for quantifying facies attributes of hydrocarbon reservoirs Paul M. (Mitch) Harris and Brigitte Vlaswinkel
• Analyzing sequence architecture and reservoir quality of isolated carbonate platforms with forward stratigraphic modeling Phil Bassant and Paul M. (Mitch) Harris