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Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms

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Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms

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Abstract

Studies of carbonate platforms can contribute significantly to several of the themes announced by GSGP. We propose the following topics as a focus for Working Group 4.

  1. 1.

    Determine rates of sediment production, rates of aggradation and large-scale facies patterns of Cretaceous platforms and evaluate the differences between platforms of the Cretaceous greenhouse Earth and those of the present-day icehouse Earth.

  2. 2.

    Construct at least parts of a sea level curve solely from the record of carbonate platforms to avoid the problems of sequence boundaries caused by the change-over from siliciclastics to carbonates or evaporites and vice versa.

  3. 3.

    Examine the repeated global crises of platforms in the Cretaceous, in particular the puzzling coincidence of world-wide drowning and oceanic anoxia.

  4. 4.

    Compare early diagenesis and compaction of Cretaceous platforms and their recent counterparts, again with particular emphasis on the effects of the greenhouse Earth.

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  1. Earth Sciences, Free University, P.O. Box 7161, Amsterdam, 1007 MC, The Netherlands

    Wolfgang Schlager

  2. Laboratoire de Stratigraphie, Universite de Provence, Case 68, 13331, Marseille Cedex, France

    Jean Philip

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  1. Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami Beach, FL, USA

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  2. Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

    Bernard Beaudoin

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Schlager, W., Philip, J. (1990). Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms. In: Ginsburg, R.N., Beaudoin, B. (eds) Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms. NATO ASI Series, vol 304. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6861-6_9

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