I Principles of Carbonate Sedimentation. - The Requisite Marine Environment: Warmth Light Water Movement. - Carbonate Production Is Basically Organic. - Principal Hydrographic Controls on Carbonate Accumulation. - The Local Origin of Carbonate ParticlesTextural Interpretation and Classification. - Carbonate Deposition Is Rapid but Is Easily Inhibited and Therefore Sporadic during Geologic Time. - Carbonate Sediments and Rock Are Peculiarly Subject to Many Stages of Diagenesis. - Summary. - II The Stratigraphy of Carbonate Deposits. - Definitions. - The Basic Facies Pattern. - Paleotectonic Settings for Carbonate Facies. - Stratigraphic Sequences Geometry and Facies of Carbonate Shelf Margins and Basins. - Stratigraphie Sequences in Carbonates of Epeiric Seas on Shelves and in Shallow Basins. - III Outline of Carbonate Petrography. - Techniques for Examining Carbonate Rocks. - Microfacies Interpretations. - Standard Microfacies Types. - Diagenetic Changes in Carbonate Sediments. - Biological Observations. - Glossary of Sedimentary Structures in Carbonate Rocks. - Environmental Analysis of a Carbonate Thin Section. - Significance of Color in Carbonate Rocks. - Clastic Content in Carbonates. - Porosity and Permeability. - IV The Advent of Framebuilders in the Middle Paleozoic. - The Earliest Buildups. - Silurian Buildups Paleotectonic Settings. - Devonian Buildups. - Summary. - V The Lower Carboniferous Waulsortian Fades. - Relation of Waulsortian Fades to Regional Paleostructure. - Composition of Typical Waulsortian Fades. - Theories of Mound Origin. - Condusions. - VI Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian Shelf Margin Fades in Southwestern United States of America. - Paleotectonic Setting Geologic History and Climate. - Special Organic Communities Forming Carbonate Buildups in Late Paleozoic Strata. -Examples of Permo-Pennsylvanian Carbonate Buildups. - Conclusions. - VII Late Paleozoic Terrigenous-Carbonate Shelf Cycles. - Yoredale Cycles. - Pennsylvanian and Wolfcampian Shelf Cyclothems of the Midcontinent and Southern Rocky Mountains. - VIII Permo-Triassic Buildups and Late Triassic Ecologic Reefs. - Permian Reef Complex. - The Middle Triassic of the Dolomites. - Upper Triassic Reef-Lined Banks and Basinal Mounds of Austria and Bavaria. - Similarities and Differences between Permian and Triassic Reef Complexes. - IX Reef Trends and Basin Deposits in Late Jurassic Facies of Europe and the Middle East. - Regional Settings. - Basic Microfacies. - The Reef Girdle of Central Europe. - The Solnhofen Facies. - X Shoaling upward Shelf Cycles and Shelf Dolomitization. - Oolite-Grainstone Cycles. - Lime Mud-Sabkha Cycles. - Platform Cycles with Intense Diagenesis. - Dolomitization of Carbonate Banks and Interior Shelf Cycles. - Conclusions. - XI The Rise of Rudists; Middle Cretaceous Fades in Mexico and the Middle East. - The Rudist Bivalves. - Shelf Margin and Plattform-Bank Interior Facies of Middle Cretaceous of Mexico and the Gulf Coast. - Middle and Lower Cretaceous Facies in the Middle East. - XII Summary. - Stratigraphic Principles. - Nine Standard Facies Belts in an Ideal Model of a Carbonate Complex. - Three Major Types of Shelf Margin Profiles. - Carbonate Mounds and Associated Ecologic Reefs. - Interrelations of Parameters Controlling and Modifying Carbonate Accumulations. - Review of Tectonic Settings for Carbonate Buildups and Cycles. - References. - Plates. Language: English