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Sedimentary body with topographic relief composed of autochthonous calcareous deposits
A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits. Platform growth is
Carbonate_platform
Geological feature
(3 mi) of evaporite, carbonate, and siliciclastic sedimentary deposits that are primarily of marine origin. The Florida Platform is a large, level, and
Florida_Platform
The Apulia Carbonate Platform in Apulia, Italy, was a major palaeogeographic element of the southern margin of the Mesozoic Tethys Ocean. It is one of
Apulia_Carbonate_Platform
First age of the early Cretaceous
creation of large deposits of carbonate in the western Tethys sea (Neotethys). One of them was the Slivnitsa carbonate platform which existed on the northern
Berriasian
Major climatic change and biotic turnover during the Triassic
warming and increased rainfall on land, alongside a reduction of carbonate platforms in the oceans. Pluvial means "of or relating to rain; characterized
Carnian_pluvial_episode
Guyot in the Pacific Ocean
through volcanic eruptions. The volcano was eventually covered by a carbonate platform resembling that of a present-day atoll which was colonized by a number
MIT_Guyot
Guyot in the Marshall Islands northwest of the smaller Pikinni Atoll
structure, covering the former island with carbonates and thus a second carbonate platform. The second carbonate platform drowned about 68 million years ago (in
Wōdejebato
Continental area covered by relatively flat or gently tilted, mainly sedimentary strata
post-Ordovician rocks of the South American Platform are examples of an orthoplatform. Carbonate platform East European Platform List of shields and cratons Nagornji
Platform_(geology)
Yucatán Peninsula and its continental shelf
The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost
Yucatán_Platform
Topics referred to by the same term
industry Platform (Australian art group), an artists group based in Melbourne Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq Carbonate platform, a type
Platform
Submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago
The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms located in the archipelago of The Bahamas within the Lucayan Archipelago. The term is usually applied
Bahama_Banks
Cretaceous-Paleocene guyot in the Marshall Islands
eroded and thereby flattened, and a carbonate platform formed on it during the Paleocene and Eocene. These carbonates were chiefly produced by red algae
Limalok
Large sedimentary basin in the US
into the basin. The Central Basin Platform (CBP) is a tectonically uplifted basement block capped by a carbonate platform. The CBP separates the Delaware
Permian_Basin_(North_America)
locations worldwide including Norway, Greenland, and Canada, all in carbonate platform environments. The first documentation of the BSA in Australia is present
Bitter_Springs_anomaly
Geologic formation in Italy
Triassic dolomites are considered to be a classic example of ancient carbonate platforms. As the allochthonous elements in the Shale strata (Cipit boulders)
San_Cassiano_Formation
Geological formation in Montenegro
record. In Montenegro, Lower Jurassic carbonate deposits are seen intermittently along the Adriatic Carbonate Platform extending from Herzegovina into the
Seoca_Lithiotis_Limestone
Island group of the Caribbean Leeward Islands
Mona passage, all the islands except for Saint Croix lie on the same carbonate platform and insular shelf, known as the Puerto Rico Bank, and same tectonic
Virgin_Islands
Geological formation in Italy
been reported in the formation. It represented a carbonate platform, being located over the Trento Platform and surrounded by the Tofino Formation (deep-water)
Calcari_Grigi_Group
Oil field in Venezuela
normal faults. During the Early Cretaceous–Paleocene, a mixed clastic-carbonate platform developed across the area of present-day Maracaibo Basin. Thermal
Bolivar_Coastal_Fields
Geological formation in Spain
East-Iberian area, that during the Middle Jurassic was part of a Carbonate platform system, influenced by tectonic activity and fault lines, along the
El_Pedregal_Formation
Underwater tablemount in the Pacific Ocean
subsequently flattened by erosion. Carbonate deposition commenced, forming an atoll-like structure and a carbonate platform. The platform emerged above sea level
Resolution_Guyot
Thrust belt
principles, the Jura Massif is considered a geological equivalent of the carbonate platforms of the Bahamas or Barbados. The Jura Massif is an arched peripheral
Geology_of_the_Jura_Massif
Insular shelf and carbonate platform comprising Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
de Puerto Rico), also known as the Puerto Rican Bank (PRB), is a carbonate platform and insular shelf comprising the archipelagos of Puerto Rico and the
Puerto_Rico_Bank
Geologic formation in the West Bank
Judea Group and records sedimentation on a broad, shallow marine carbonate platform along the southern margin of the Tethys Ocean during the Early Cenomanian
Bet-Meir_Formation
Geological formations in Morocco
massive Siliciclastic-Carbonate platform ("Tafraout Platform"), best assigned to succession W-E of fluvial to tidal flat to inner platform to open marine settings
Tafraout_Group
Prehistoric impact crater in Mexico
impact. The site of the crater at the time of impact was a marine carbonate platform. The water depth at the impact site varied from 100 meters (330 ft)
Chicxulub_crater
Type of layers in sedimentary rocks
shape, carbonate productivity, etc.). Autocycles show limited stratigraphic continuity. An example of autocyclic sedimentation on a carbonate platform was
Cyclic_sediments
Disputed uninhabited reef in the western Caribbean Sea
the reef. Serranilla Bank is a former atoll, now a mostly submerged carbonate platform consisting of shallow reef environments. It is about 40 kilometres
Serranilla_Bank
Part of the Virgin Islands comprising Culebra and Vieques of Puerto Rico
except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix, all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular shelf, the Puerto Rico Bank, between the North Atlantic
Spanish_Virgin_Islands
Geological formation in Italy
a 3.5-meter-thick section. The formation is part of the Apennine carbonate platform succession, which accumulated in shallow marine environments during
Monte_Fallano_Plattenkalk
Geological formation in Slovenia
This unit represents the major depositional record of the Adriatic Carbonate platform (and more or less to the margin of Greater Adria), being known for
Podpeč_Limestone
Seamount in the Pacific Ocean
5 kilometres (0.93 mi) in the central sector of the volcano; the carbonate platform is also offset in such a manner by a normal fault represented by a
Daiichi-Kashima_Seamount
Geological basin of the Kaapvaal craton
approximately 2.640 and 2.516 Ga, two successive stromatolitic carbonate platforms developed in the basin of the Kaapvaal craton. Oldest was the Schmidtsdrif
Transvaal_Basin
Extinction event around 260 million years ago
to the southward migration of many taxa through the Zechstein Sea. Carbonate platform deposits in Hungary and Hydra show no sign of an extinction event
Capitanian mass extinction event
Capitanian_mass_extinction_event
Genus of lizards
single species, P. krambergeri, recovered from the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform. It was a relatively small reptile, reaching 1 m (3.3 ft) in length
Portunatasaurus
Palaeontology
vertebrate and arthropod fauna within shallow‑water carbonates of the Adriatic–Dinaric Carbonate Platform. Villaggio del Pescatore lies on the Trieste Karst
Villaggio del Pescatore palaeontological locality
Villaggio_del_Pescatore_palaeontological_locality
smaller part of the Pannonian Basin and the larger Dinaric Alps. The carbonate platform karst landscape helped create the weathering conditions that form
Geology_of_Croatia
Geomorphological feature in Florida, US
the Atlantic Coastal Ridge (the Miami Rock Ridge) was created as a carbonate platform during the same period. Before human modification for agriculture
Atlantic_Coastal_Ridge
Regional geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians
Wetterstein Carbonate platform – typical are fore-reef carbonates, later reefal and back-reefal carbonates topped by lagoonal carbonates, making the original
Wetterstein_Formation
Rock formation in the USA
north. In addition, the Gilmer Limestone member also represents a carbonate platform with oolite shoals that lie beneath central Upshur and western Smith
Haynesville_Shale
Mountain in northwest Slovenia; highest peak of the Julian Alps
Carnian-Norian basin-platform system of the Martuljek Mountain Group (Julian Alps, Slovenia): Progradation of the Dachstein carbonate platform". Geologica Carpathica
Triglav
Mountain range in central Morocco
shallow water carbonate platforms (Hettangian-lower Sinemurian) that progressively backstepped toward the basin margins, to more localized platform development
High_Atlas
Mountain range in Turkey
the Eastern Taurus Mountains, is represented by the lithology of Carbonate platform and Binboğa Mélange formation, which was created when South Neotethys
Binboğa_Mountains
Mountain in Slovenia
which form part of the Julian nappe. The well-preserved carbonate rocks display a complete platform-to-basin cycle, dating back approximately 240 million
Prisojnik
Hypothetical Archaean supercontinent from about 3.1 billion years ago
(1) Zimgarn was still undergoing cratonisation when an extensive carbonate platform developed over Vaalbara; (2) the magmatic signatures are different
Ur_(continent)
regional uplift at the foreland, which caused the emergence of a broad carbonate platform in the eastern Hyblean Plateau. During the Messinian of late Miocene
Geology_of_Sicily
Mountain range in the Balkan Peninsula of Southeastern Europe
dolomite deposited on top of a huge Bahama-type carbonate platform, while a few kilometers thick carbonate successions have been deformed during the Alpine
Dinaric_Alps
Mountain in Switzerland and Italy
many massive carbonate platforms building up on a branch of the Tethys Sea which was expanding westwards. The shallow carbonate platform of Monte San
Monte_San_Giorgio
Extinct clade of sponges
together in flat biostromes or elevated bioherms on soft tropical carbonate platforms. Externally, some species have raised bumps (mamelons) and star-shaped
Stromatoporoidea
Seamount in the Mediterranean, south of Cyprus
kilometres (60 mi) south of western Cyprus. Unlike most seamounts, it is a carbonate platform, not a volcano. It is a large, submerged massif, about 120 by 80 kilometres
Eratosthenes_Seamount
Geologic formation in Azilal Province, central Morocco
Middle and High Atlas of Morocco, being the remnant of a local massive Carbonate platform, and known mostly for its rich tracksites (up to 1350 tracks in 1988)
Aganane_Formation
Seamount in the Pacific Ocean
carbonate deposition commenced as Allison Guyot subsided and eventually buried the island, forming an atoll-like structure and a carbonate platform.
Allison_Guyot
Geologic formation in Morocco
limestone layers on the top flat Bou Dahar plateau) developed inside a carbonate platform, recording the evolutionary cycles of this environment with notorious
Calcaires_du_Bou_Dahar
Mass extinction ending the Triassic period
was slow; in the northern Tethys, carbonate platforms in the TJME's aftermath became dominated by microbial carbonate producers and r-selected calcitic
Triassic–Jurassic_extinction
Geological formation in Italy and Switzerland
transgressive episode during which the sea flooded a fault-segmented carbonate platform. Sedimentation was slow and often interrupted, producing condensed
Moltrasio_Formation
Geological formation
deposited on a tropical carbonate platform in subtidal to peritidal environments. It is characterized by a variety of carbonate facies, including lime
Catoche_Formation
Albian–Campanian guyot in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean
Turonian the seamount was submerged although it is possible that a carbonate platform formed during the Albian. After a hiatus, sedimentation commenced
Lo-En
Submerged bank in Mauritius
Jesus; Lindhorst, Sebastian (June 2024). "Changes in mesophotic carbonate‐platform export across the end of the last glacial cycle (Saya de Malha Bank
Saya_de_Malha_Bank
Movement of the front of a river delta inland over time
Retrogradation may occur also in carbonate platforms during phases of sea-level rise, when the increment exceeds carbonate inputs from the biological community
Retrogradation
Hill pass in the Peak District, England
"The Facies Architecture and Depositional Geometry of a Late Visean Carbonate Platform Margin, Derbyshire, UK" (PDF). Retrieved 28 March 2020. Ford, Trevor
Winnats_Pass
Guyot in the Western Pacific Ocean off Japan
volcanic island and generated a carbonate platform which drowned during the Albian along with several other such platforms in the world. Takuyo-Daisan was
Takuyo-Daisan
Extinct genus of fishes
north-eastern Italy. The paleoenvironment of Polazzo was a large marine carbonate platform and shallow internal lagoons formed from rudist reefs. P. coronatus
Polazzodus
Extinct agnathan chordates resembling eels
study Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios of a population of conodonts from a carbonate platform from the Silurian of Sweden found that the different conodont species
Conodont
Extinct genus of dinosaurs
brachiopods and bryozoans. Deposition occurred on a slope between a shallow carbonate platform and a deeper basin. Various scratches, grooves, and striations indicate
Saltriovenator
Extinct genus of foraminifera
Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) in age. It has been used as a shallow carbonate platform facies marker and as a Cretaceous index fossil. The test of the organism
Orbitolina
Late Triassic geological formation in the Northern Calcareous Alps
dominated by a wide and shallow carbonate platform within a lagoon between the shore and a string of reefs. This carbonate platform is nowadays preserved as
Kössen_Formation
Islands in Western Australia
Morning Reef The group consists of a number of islands arising from a carbonate platform 17 kilometres (11 miles) long and up to 10 kilometres (6.2 miles)
Wallabi_Group
Submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean
east by Navidad Bank Passage. Silver Bank is a shallow underwater carbonate platform that almost reaches the ocean's surface in certain areas (60 feet
Silver_Bank
Geologic formation in Switzerland and Italy
algal mounds (stromatolites). It corresponds to a thick warm-water carbonate platform on the northern edge of an island in what is now the Po Plain. This
San_Salvatore_Dolomite
Geological group in Indiana, USA
proliferum, together with other fossil remains characteristic of shallow carbonate platform environments, and form important hydrocarbon reservoirs in parts of
Blue_River_Group
Sedimentary precipitation of carbonate induced by microbes
2800 Ma to 1000 Ma when stromatolites were the main constituents of carbonate platforms. The three types of microbialites are stromatolites, thrombolites
Microbialite
Island in Croatia
Adriatic Sea: Permo-Triassic magmatism on the Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform" (PDF). Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Field Guide Series. 8: 1-15
Jabuka_(island)
Largest anoxic event in the Jurassic period and Phanerozoic eon
continental weathering and nutrient runoff were the dominant drivers of carbonate platform decline in the PTo-E, whereas during the TOAE the main culprits were
Toarcian_Oceanic_Anoxic_Event
Body of water between the Italian and Balkan Peninsulas
developed in Apulia from the Apulian Carbonate Platform. The largest part of the eastern coast consists of carbonate rocks, while flysch (a particular type
Adriatic_Sea
Type of sedimentary rock
Limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite
Limestone
Extinct family of molluscs
margins, from areas in Italy (Rotzo Formation of the Trento Platform, Apennine Carbonate Platform), Slovenia (Podpeč Limestone), Montenegro (Budoš Limestone)
Plicatostylidae
Geologic formation in Italy
metres (6,600 ft) thick formation that was deposited in an inner carbonate platform environment towards the top dominated by rudist reefs. The Calcare
Calcare_di_Bari
Town in Caraș-Severin, Romania
the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous units display basinal and carbonate platform features (Bucur, 1997). In 2002, the oldest modern human remains in
Anina
Mesozoic geologic formation in Italy
Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) age, being a local record of Carbonate platform limestones, historically quarried by cutting large blocks using steel
Lipica_Formation
Part of Malaysia on the island of Borneo
The Central Luconia Gas Fields produce from middle to late Miocene carbonate platform and pinnacle reefs from 1.25 to 3.76 km deep and water depths 60-100m
East_Malaysia
Spatial entity with common geologic attributes
Platform Horizontal or gently-lying sedimentary strata covering a basement of igneous or metamorphic rocks Carbonate platform East European Platform Orogen
Geologic_province
Geology of the area in California and Nevada
of complex life. These sandy mudflats gave way about 550 Ma to a carbonate platform which lasted for the next 300 million years of Paleozoic time. The
Geology of the Death Valley area
Geology_of_the_Death_Valley_area
Limestone constituent
automicrite is most common is in carbonate mud mounds, a type of carbonate platform. In this kind of carbonate platform, common in the geological past but
Automicrite
Geologic formation in the southeastern Alps of Europe
Dachstein carbonates ceased, amongst the mechanisms suggested are (a) a tectonically driven platform drowning event terminating shallow marine platform sedimentation
Dachstein_Formation
Deep-water oceanic basin on the continental margin of the northeastern Atlantic
contains some of the most well investigated deep-water carbonate mounds in the world. Carbonate mounds, which can reach heights of up to 600 m, are formed
Porcupine_Seabight
Carbonate platform in Bahama Banks, The Bahamas
Cay Sal Bank Placer de los Roques Carbonate platform Cay Sal Bank overview map Cay Sal Bank south of Florida and north of Cuba Country The Bahamas Region
Cay_Sal_Bank
Property of animals that do not use self-locomotion
oysters. Carbonate platforms grow due to the buildup of skeletal remains of sessile organisms, usually microorganisms, which induce carbonate precipitation
Sessility_(motility)
Geologic formation in Nevada, United States
during the late Paleozoic. While the unit forms part of a broader carbonate platform system in the Great Basin, it is significant for reconstructing Silurian
Lone_Mountain_Formation
Submerged carbonate platform in the Atlantic Ocean
The Barbuda Bank is a large submerged carbonate platform in the Atlantic Ocean, covering about 3,500 square kilometres. Three major islands emerge above
Barbuda_Bank
Regional unit in Greece
in winter. Arcadia is almost totally mountainous and part of the "carbonate platform" (calcareous or limestone deposits) of the Peloponnese. The whole
Arcadia_(regional_unit)
Seamount in the Pacific Ocean
flats and lagoons have been inferred from the fossils. The resulting carbonate platform drowned about 100 million years ago, or at the time of the Cenomanian-Turonian
Darwin_Guyot
Second period of the Mesozoic Era
Adatte, Thierry; Föllmi, Karl B.; Parente, Mariano (December 2012). "Carbonate platform evidence of ocean acidification at the onset of the early Toarcian
Jurassic
Period of cool climate during the Early Cretaceous
bivalves have been observed to have colonised carbonate ramps in areas such as the Aralar carbonate platform. Scotese, Christopher Robert; Song, Haijun;
Aptian-Albian_Cold_Snap
System that relates geologic strata to time
supply of nutrients to seas. Localised free oxygen associated with carbonate platform stromatolites. Evidence for oxygen-producing photosynthesisers (and
Geologic_time_scale
Geologic formation in China
during the late Ediacaran between 551 – 539 Ma on a shallow marine carbonate platform. Due to the great area the formation covers, it not only contains
Dengying_Formation
Overseas department and region of France
but there are no visible outcrops. On Grande-Terre, the overlying carbonate platform is 120 metres (400 feet) thick. The islands are part of the Leeward
Guadeloupe
Siliciclastic unit in Sweden
an unusually high supply of terrigenous sediment into the shallow carbonate platform that was to become the island of Gotland. Their deposition is coincident
Fröjel_Formation
Region and island in Indonesia
is an accumulation of carbonate rocks from the late Miocene. These carbonates are likely pinnacle reefs and the carbonate platform has a total thickness
Sulawesi
Part of the sea which is shallow compared to its surrounding area
any landmass, banks have no outside source of sediments. Carbonate banks are typically platforms, rising from the ocean depths, whereas terrigenous banks
Ocean_bank
event (a UHT metamorphic event). c. 2,600 Ma – Oldest known giant carbonate platform. Saturation of oxygen in ocean sediments is reached as oxygen now
Timeline_of_Earth
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