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The Origin, Development and Demise of Carbonate Platforms
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The Origin, Development and Demise of Carbonate Platforms

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 4583

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Prof. Dr. José Miguel Molina

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Departamento de Geología and CEACTEMA, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Universitario, Edf. B-3., E-23071 Jaén, Spain
Interests: stratigraphy; sedimentology; carbonate petrology; facies analysis; paleokarst; Mesozoic; Betic Cordillera
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Prof. Dr. Luis Miguel Nieto

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Departamento de Geología and CEACTEMA, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Universitario, Edf. B-3., E-23071 Jaén, Spain
Interests: stratigraphy; sedimentology; carbonate petrology; facies analysis; paleokarst; Mesozoic; Betic Cordillera
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of Minerals, we are pleased to announce the Special Issue "Origin, Development and Demise of Carbonate Platforms" and we would like to invite you to contribute to this issue focusing on the “life cycle” of the mostly shallow-water carbonates deposited in rimmed shelves, ramps, epeiric platforms, isolated platforms and drowned platforms. Carbonate platforms emerge, grow and die in response to mechanisms forced primarily by tectonics, oceanography, climate, ecology and eustasy. The investigation of carbonate platforms is critical for understanding the global carbonate cycle, as carbonate minerals comprise the largest reservoir of carbon in the earth’s lithosphere.

Remarkable advances have recently been made in understanding the architecture and evolution of carbonate platforms, mainly considering hydrodynamics and evolving ecology. Furthermore, in recent decades, analytical techniques have also advanced and offered a more complete vision to scientists in mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, making data available with a superlative analytical and spatial resolution.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect original research studies that can throw new light and advances on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrology, geochemistry, (paleo)climate, (pale)oceanography and hydrogeology of carbonate platforms. Contributions may embrace a broad spectrum of aspects, because this Special Issue aims to show a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective of past and recent carbonate platforms, but taking into account that carbonate research is shifting from the description and morphological analysis towards a subject that is more focused on the assessment of process and genetic relationships. Contributions can either be review papers related to special topics or very specialized research studies, opening new perspectives about concrete aspects of recent or past carbonate platforms.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1) the architecture and interpretation of carbonate platforms; 2) the controls on carbonate facies deposition; 3) carbonate platforms as an archive of ancient life and paleoenvironments; 4) role of carbonate platforms in (pale)oceanography and the global carbonate cycle; 5) recognition of primary versus diagenetic overprint in carbonate platforms; 6) carbonate platform significance as source and reservoir rocks.

We thank you and look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. José Miguel Molina
Prof. Dr. Luis Miguel Nieto
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • carbonate platforms
  • facies analysis
  • carbonates
  • paleoenvironments
  • drowned platforms
  • carbon cycle

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Palustrine Sediments between Two Isolated Shallow Carbonate Platforms (Aptian–Albian Transition, Prebetic of Jaén, South Spain)
by Luis M. Nieto, José Miguel Molina, Pedro Alejandro Ruiz-Ortiz, José Manuel Castro, Matías Reolid and Ginés A. de Gea
Minerals 2022, 12(2), 116; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/min12020116 - 20 Jan 2022
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During the Aptian-Albian transition, an extensional phase of the Central Atlantic which affected the Prebetic carbonate platform (South Iberian Continental Margin, northwestern margin of the Tethys) occurred. A graben morphology was developed in the platform coeval to a relative sea level fall. As [...] Read more.
During the Aptian-Albian transition, an extensional phase of the Central Atlantic which affected the Prebetic carbonate platform (South Iberian Continental Margin, northwestern margin of the Tethys) occurred. A graben morphology was developed in the platform coeval to a relative sea level fall. As a consequence, palustrine facies characterized by rhizoliths and some pond deposits of black lutites were established. Over these palustrine sediments, a second shallow carbonate platform was built during the early Albian. However, this process was not abrupt, as several levels with orbitolines and rudists were deposited intercalated between the continental facies, recording the transition to a new shallow marine carbonate platform developped during the Early Albian. The presence of these continental palustrine sediments between two episodes of shallow carbonate platform is described for the first time in the Prebetic. The demise of an upper Aptian isolated shallow carbonate platform drove to the deposition of these palustrine sediments in an extensional tectonic regime. Full article
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Reactive Transport Modeling of Reflux Dolomitization of Carbonate Platforms: Enlightenment from Yingshan Formation in Shunnan Area, Tarim Basin
by Wenbo Zhang, Guangwei Wang and Zicheng Cao
Minerals 2021, 11(12), 1340; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/min11121340 - 29 Nov 2021
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Dolomite plays an important role in carbonate reservoirs. The topography in the study area creates conditions for reflux dolomitization. The northeastward paleogeomorphy during the deposition of the Yingshan Formation was favorable for reflux dolomitization. Furthermore, the petrological and geochemical evidence indicated that the [...] Read more.
Dolomite plays an important role in carbonate reservoirs. The topography in the study area creates conditions for reflux dolomitization. The northeastward paleogeomorphy during the deposition of the Yingshan Formation was favorable for reflux dolomitization. Furthermore, the petrological and geochemical evidence indicated that the formation of finely crystalline dolomites was penecontemporaneous to sedimentation. The content of powder crystal dolomites increases from grainstone, to packstone, to mudstone. Previous studies only analyzed the origin of dolomites based on traditional geological methods, but did not analyze the spatial influence of reflux dolomitization on the reservoir quality. In this study, the reflux dolomitization of platform carbonate sediments was evaluated using three-dimensional reactive transport models. The sensitivity of dolomitization to a range of intrinsic and extrinsic controls was also explored. The reflux dolomitization involves replacement dolomitization and over-dolomitization. The porosity change is the result of the abundance change of dolomite and anhydrite. The fluid flow pattern in the model is related to the injection rate and geothermal gradient. According to the spatial and temporal change of mineral, ionic concentration, and physical property, the reflux dolomitization could be divided into five stages. From the sensitivity analysis, high permeability promotes dolomitization only in the initial stage, while low permeability and high porosity means stronger dolomitization. Besides, the injection rate, reactive surface area (RSA), geothermal gradient, and brine salinity are all proportional to the dolomitization. Differently from porosity change, the permeability change is concentrated in the upper part of the numerical model. The location of “sweet spot” varies with the locations of change centers of porosity and permeability. In the stage-1 and 4 of dolomitzation, it overlaps with porosity and permeability growth centers. While in the stage-2, 3 and 5, it lies between the porosity and permeability growth/reduction centers. Full article
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