Field Guides to Exceptionally Exposed Carbonate Outcrops
Year of publication: 2021
Authors: Giovanna Della Porta, V. Paul Wright
This exceptional volume presents fourteen detailed and richly illustrated examples of classic carbonate platform outcrops spanning an age range of Devonian to Miocene and locations including Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, China and the Middle East.
You may also request the full resolution PDF version (4.2GB; print ready) or request an order form for a print copy at a Member discount price through the contact form.
Chapters
Chapter Name / Number
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Introduction to: Field Guides to Exceptionally Exposed Carbonate Outcrops (V. Paul Wright and Giovanna Della Porta). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/00
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Devonian reefal carbonates of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia: Field guide for a classic carbonate outcrop of the world (Ted E. Playton, Charles Kerans, Roger M. Hocking, Peter W. Haines, Erwin W. Adams, Neil F. Hurley and Edmund L. Frost III). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/01
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Pennsylvanian high-relief microbial boundstone-dominated carbonate platform margins (Sierra del Cuera, Asturias, Spain) (Giovanna Della Porta, Juan R. Bahamonde, Jeroen A.M. Kenter and Klaas Verwer). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/02
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Natural laboratory for studying stratigraphic architecture, facies tract distribution and syndepositional deformation in carbonate ramps and steep-rimmed platforms: Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico (Charlie Kerans, Chris Zahm, Beatriz Garcia-Fresca and Paul (Mitch) Harris). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/03
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Stratigraphic evolution of a latest Permian to Late Triassic isolated carbonate platform: The Great Bank of Guizhou, South China (Brian M. Kelley, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Meiyi Yu, Marcello Minzoni, Paul Enos, Xiaowei Li and Jonathan L. Payne). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/04
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The depositional architecture of Latemar and Sella, isolated Triassic microbial platforms of the Dolomites, NE Italy (Nereo Preto, Piero Gianolla, Marco Franceschi, Giovanni Gattolin and Alberto Riva). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/05
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Facies types and architecture of a Triassic high relief carbonate system terminated by subaerial exposure (Lombardy, Southern Alps, N Italy) (Fabrizio Berra and Flavio Jadoul). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/06
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Lower and Middle Jurassic platforms and ramps from the High Atlas of Morocco (Óscar Merino-Tomé, Giovanna Della Porta, Aurelien Pierre, Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Christophe Durlet and Klaas Verwer). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/07
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A journey along the Gargano promontory (Southern Italy): The Late Jurassic to Eocene Apulia Carbonate Platform evolution (Michele Morsilli, Alex Hairabian, Jean Borgomano, Sergio Nardon, Erwin Adams and Guido Bracco Gartner). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/08
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Depositional geometries in Barremian platform carbonates from south-eastern France (Annie Arnaud-Vanneau, Hubert Arnaud, Thierry Adatte and Alexis Godet). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/09
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The Mid-Cretaceous Natih Formation in northern Oman: a model for platform-intrashelf basin depositional systems and associated petroleum habitat (Philippe Razin, Carine Grélaud and Frans van Buchem, with contributions by Peter Homewood and Volker Vahrenkamp). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/10
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Danian (Lower Paleocene) shallow carbonates from the Urbasa-Andia plateau (W Pyrenees): Contrasting models of facies architecture and early diagenesis across a greenhouse ramp to reef-rimmed shelf system (Juan Ignacio Baceta, V. Paul Wright and Ana Berreteaga). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/11
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Mut Basin, Turkey: diverse carbonate depositional styles and mixed systems (Phil Bassant, Xavier Janson, Kemal Gurbuz, Kadir Eriş and Frans Van Buchem). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/12
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The upper Miocene reef-rimmed platform of Mallorca (Spain): factory structure, growth dynamics and diagenesis (Luis Pomar L., Juan Ignacio Baceta and G. Mateu-Vicens). DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/13
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Depositional geometries in Barremian platform carbonates from south-eastern France [Supplementary Information]
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Devonian reefal carbonates of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia: Field guide for a classic carbonate outcrop of the world [Supplementary Information]
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The Mid-Cretaceous Natih Formation in northern Oman: a model for platform-intrashelf basin depositional systems and associated petroleum habitat [Supplementary Information]
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Lower and Middle Jurassic platforms and ramps from the High Atlas of Morocco [Supplementary Information]
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About this book
Year of publication
2021
Author/s
Giovanna Della Porta, V. Paul Wright
Description
This exceptional volume presents fourteen detailed and richly illustrated examples of classic carbonate platform outcrops spanning an age range of Devonian to Miocene and locations including Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, China and the Middle East.
You may also request the full resolution PDF version (4.2GB; print ready) or request an order form for a print copy at a Member discount price through the contact form.
Series Editor
Elias Samankassou
Subject/s
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Last updated
04 March 2026
Copyright status
© 2021 International Association of Sedimentologists. ISBN 978-1-7398845-0-5
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