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Postglacial evolution of the Lake Constance shelf and its relation to a 10-km long chain of submerged Neolithic mounds
A recent bathymetric survey of Lake Constance revealed ~ 170 mounds composed of loosely deposited rocks aligned in a ~ 10-km long chain along the...
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Revisiting the upper Visean mud mounds from Derbyshire (UK): the role of brachiopods in their growth
Several brachiopod-rich mud mounds occur in the upper Visean (Brigantian) of the Derbyshire Carbonate Platform succession in UK. The re-evaluation of...
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Development and physical characteristics of the Irish shelf-edge Macnas Mounds, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic
Modern cold-water corals (CWCs) occur in a wide range of water depths, with Desmophyllum pertusum being one of the most common species. Pleistocene,...
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Dynamics of the Middle Holocene Paleoclimate in the Steppe Zone of the Eastern European Plain According to the Data of the Study of Soils Buried under Mounds of the Bronze Epoch
AbstractSoils buried under archaeological monuments of the Bronze Age were studied on three test plots in Orenburg oblast, Stavropol krai, and...
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Reservoir Characteristics of the Ultradeep Carbonate Gas Reservoir
A significant proportion of global fossil fuel reserves and production are contributed by carbonate reservoirs. The huge exploration and exploitation...
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Modern Carbonate Environments
Each of the Cayman Islands are, in reality, the summits of submarine mountains that are parts of the Cayman Ridge and surrounded by deep oceanic...
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Postsedimentary Transformations of Silurian Carbonate Rocks on the Central Part of the Chernyshev Ridge (Timan–Pechora Province)
AbstractThe article presents the results of studies of postsedimentary processes in Silurian carbonate rocks of the central part of the Chernyshev...
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Ikaite versus seep-related carbonate precipitation in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of West Spitsbergen: evidence for cold versus warm climates?
Glendonites and seep-related carbonate bodies from the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary interval of West Spitsbergen were studied using mineralogical,...
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The implications of structural control on the miocene carbonate reservoirs of Bakr-Al Hamd oil fields, Gulf of Suez
The present work aims to provide a tectonostratigraphic model of the Miocene carbonate reservoirs accumulated in Bakr-Al-Hamd ridge to help unlock an...
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Characteristics and origins of middle Miocene mounds and channels in the northern South China Sea
Numerous elongated mounds and channels were found at the top of the middle Miocene strata using 2D/3D seismic data in the Liwan Sag of Zhujiang River...
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Facies, depositional environments and drowning of Tethyan isolated carbonate platforms: the Paleogene carbonates of Malta
The < 900-m-thick Paleogene carbonates of the Maltese Islands and offshore wells comprise 16 facies grouped into 7 carbonate facies associations (TA,...
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Significance of microbial binding in the formation and stabilization of a silurian carbonate forereef slope
The effect of microbial binding for the stabilization of steep carbonate slopes is well documented in Cenozoic examples but its significance and...
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Quaternary fluvial carbonate deposits of the Almonda River Valley, Central Portugal
This paper discusses the formation and preservation of a fluvial tufa system influenced by Atlantic climate based on stratigraphical, chronological...
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Late Moscovian phylloid algal-microbial mounds from Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt: a new construction model and paleogeographic distribution
Upper Carboniferous deposits of the Rod El-Hamal Formation are well exposed at Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt. The upper part of the...
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Carbonate factory of Pietra di Finale coastal wedge (Miocene): the unusual abundance of stylasterids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)
This work focuses on the carbonate factories constituting the Pietra di Finale Fm crop** out in the Ligurian Alps. This unit constituted a mixed...
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Reservoir rock ty** and storage capacity of Mishrif Carbonate Formation in West Qurna/1 Oil Field, Iraq
The Mishrif sequence in the West Qurna oilfield is a long-term, second-order shallowing-upward cycle with a regional unconformity at the top. Due to...
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Classification, modeling and characterization of marine carbonate paleokarst reservoirs in Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin, China
Deep marine carbonate paleokarst reservoirs have large hydrocarbon reserves in Tarim Basin, NW China. Geological modeling and characterization are...
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Facies character and evolution of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic shelf: Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic succession in the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps (Stumpfmauer, Austria)
Western Tethys sedimentary successions constitute fundamental archives of Late Triassic–Early Jurassic environmental, carbonate production and...
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Progradation of a shallow carbonate platform developed on a fault-block in the Western Tethys (lower Aptian, Sierra de Bedmar-Jódar, Prebetic of Jaén, Spain)
The Middle Member of the Llopis Fm in the Sierra de Bedmar-Jódar Unit of the Prebetic Zone of Jaén (southern Spain) was deposited on a shallow-marine...
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3D outcrop geologic modeling and seismic forward modeling of mound-beach complexes
In order to better characterize the internal texture and macro distribution of carbonate mound-beach complexes, systematical studies have been...
