Carbonate Petrology and Depositional Systems

Geology 532

 

 

 

Schedule
Project
Project pics
Grading

Class Presentations

Introduction

 

Carbonate Minerology

 

Controls on Carbonate Precipitation

 

Constituents of Carbonate Rocks

and Algal Skeltal Grains

 

Invertebrate Skeletal Grains –Molluscs and Brachiopods

 

Invertebrate Skeletal Grains-Echinoderms and Arthropods

 

Invertebrate Skeletal Grains
Sponges, Stromatoporoids,
 and Corals

 

Cements in Carbonate Rocks

 

Dolomite and Dolomitization Models


Carbonate
Depositional Environments

 

Carbonate Tidal Flat Environment

 

Shelf Environment

 

Shelf Margin Environment

 

Reef Environment

 

Forereef to Slope Environment

 

Permian Reef Complex

 

Introduction to Carbonate

Sequence Stratigraphy