Mixed carbonate-clastic environments
The depositional environments described are made up of ‘pure’ carbonate and evaporite deposits that do not contain terrigenous clastic or volcaniclastic...
الثلاثاء، 30 يونيو 2015
Marine evaporites
Evaporite deposits in modern marine environments are largely restricted to coastal regions, such as evaporite lagoons and sabkha mudflats. However, evaporite...
Carbonate platforms
A number of different morphologies of carbonate platform are recognised, the most widely documented being carbonate ramps, which are gently...
الأحد، 28 يونيو 2015
Applications of lithostratigraphy
Lithostratigraphy and geological mapsLithostratigraphy and geological maps as Part of the definition of a formation is that it should be a...
السبت، 27 يونيو 2015
Description of Lithostratigraphy
In lithostratigraphy rock units are considered in terms of the lithological characteristics of the strata and their relative stratigraphic positions. The...
الجمعة، 26 يونيو 2015
Geophysical and geological logging
There is a wide range of instruments, geophysical logging tools, that are lowered down a borehole to record the physical and...
Borehole stratigraphy and sedimentology
The interpretation of seismic reflection profiles provides a model for the stratigraphic and structural relationships that may exist in the subsurface....
الثلاثاء، 23 يونيو 2015
Taxa used in biostratigraphy
No single group of organisms fulfils all the criteria for the ideal zone fossil and a number of different groups of...
