Describing, characterizing and interpreting the nearly infinite variety of carbonate rocks are
conundrums–intricate and difficult problems having only conjectural answers–that have …

World-class hydrocarbon accumulations occur in many ancient evaporite-related basins.
Seals and traps of such accumulations are, in many cases, controlled by the stratigraphic …

The classification, tectonic settings, stratigraphy and early diagenesis of carbonate ramp
systems are reviewed. Carbonate ramps are common in all geological periods, but were …

Various types of carbonate platforms are characterized by distinctive profiles, facies, and
evolutionary sequences. Ramps may be homoclinal or distally steepened, and may have …

The major controls on changes in carbonate productivity, as well as platform or bank growth
and the resultant facies distribution, are interpreted here to be short-term eustatic changes …

The basic structural and stratigraphic framework of the Gulf of Mexico Basin was established
during the Late Triassic and the Jurassic. During the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, as the …

Abstract The Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous interval in the Neuquen basin, Argentina,
provides a good example of carbonate sedimentary response to eustatic sea-level change …

Geological and geophysical evidence—and confidence in the postulates of plate tectonics—
indicates that in the dawn of the Mesozoic what would become the Gulf of Mexico basin area …

The paleobathymetric configuration of the early Gulf of Mexico is inferred from (1)
Cretaceous carbonate shelf margins interpreted from seismic profiles and other stratigraphic …

Jurassic reef patterns reflect the fulminant global and regional changes initiated by the
breakup of northern Pangea. The pattern of reef distribution across the Jurassic reflects a …