Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Carbonates
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 368
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Serving as guest editors for Minerals, we are pleased to announce the Special Issue “Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Carbonates” and would like to invite you to contribute to this issue.
Generally, carbonates are biological or biochemical sediments and are deposited mostly in marine environments. Carbonate sedimentology and geochemistry are frequently used to investigate paleoclimates, palaeoceanography and paleoecology, as carbonate sediments and rocks are the most widespread and important archive of climate and oceanographic changes as well as biological evolution throughout the Earth’s history. In general, continental carbonates (lacustrine carbonates, travertine and tufa) are locally distributed but may also provide some significant paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental information.
A large percentage of hydrocarbon reserves are stored in carbonate reservoirs. A detailed understanding of the facies distribution, stacking pattern and stratigraphic architecture is essential to characterize carbonate reservoirs.
Carbonates are susceptible to post-depositional alteration. Therefore, multidisciplinary research on the complex diagenetic processes is crucial for paleoenvironmental studies and reservoir characterization.
This Special Issue aims to collect original contributions and review articles addressing a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following: (1) carbonate facies, cyclicity, stratigraphic architecture and platform development; (2) sequence stratigraphy; (3) various diagenetic processes; (4) paleoenvironments, paleogeography and paleoceanography; (5) mixed carbonate and siliciclastic systems; and (6) depositional, diagenetic and structural controls in carbonate reservoirs.
We thank you and look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Qilong Fu
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- carbonates
- facies and depositional environments
- stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy
- carbonate platforms
- paleogeography, paleoceanography, paleoclimates
- diagenesis
- dolomitization
- geochemistry
- microbialites
- mixed carbonates and siliciclastics
- carbonate reservoirs
- carbonate deformation during sedimentation
