Tectonic Controls on Carbonate Platform Evolution

By Steven Dorobek

Carbonate platforms provide a high-resolution record of sea-levelfluctuations, paleoclimatic change, paleoceanographic circulationpatterns, and biological evolution, yet the influence of tectonicdeformation on platform sedimentation remains poorly understood ata variety of temporal and spatial scales.

This proposal is for a text that covers all aspects of tectonicdeformation and its influence on carbonate platform sedimentation.All scales of deformation, from local fault-controlled differentialsubsidence to long-term, basin-scale subsidence patterns, aredescribed and assessed. The role of tectonics on platform location, platform morphology, internal stratigraphic patterns and faciesdistributions within individual platforms, is examined in detail, using both theoretical approaches and observational data.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405194626
• ISBN13: 9781405194624
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 320 Pages