Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms—Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies

Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms-Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies - For the past 30 years, Caicos Platform has been an important area for studies of Holocene and Pleistocene carbonate successions and a destination for numerous geoscientists interested in learning about modern carbonate sedimentary systems. During the past few years there has been a renewed interest in understanding the geology of the platform, stemming in large part from recognition in the petroleum industry that more refined reservoir models of carbonate systems are needed both in exploration and development. The impetus for the workshop and the publication was a desire to bring together both present and past Caicos Platform workers with those not familiar with the Platform to share knowledge on the Holocene and Pleistocene Sedimentology, diagenesis, platform evolution, and the applicability of the platform as an analogue for ancient isolated carbonate platforms. This volume should serve as an intermediate-term documentation of research efforts and a spur for additional studies to better understand controls on sediment distribution, diagenesis, and the evolution of platform growth, furthering the Caicos Platform as an analogue for ancient, isolated, carbonate platforms.
Holocene–Pleistocene Geology of a Transect of an Isolated Carbonate Platform, NW Caicos Platform, British West Indies
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Published:January 01, 2008
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J.A. Toni Simo, Sean A. Guidry, Christine Iannello, Gene Rankey, Christopher E. Harris, Humberto Guarin, Amy Ruf, Tina Hughes, Aram N. Derewetzky, R. Scott Parker, 2008. "Holocene–Pleistocene Geology of a Transect of an Isolated Carbonate Platform, NW Caicos Platform, British West Indies", Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms—Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies, William A. Morgan, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris
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Abstract
Outcrop and marine field work on the NW part of the Caicos platform illustrates Pleistocene-Holocene accretion of the Providenciales and West Caicos Islands, the effects of the Holocene transgression on the flooded substrate, and the differentiation of sedimentary provinces in relation to prevailing current direction and inherited topography.
A marine field study of 2D seismic (CHIRP) sub-bottom profile data and surface sediment sampling on the shelf north of Providenciales and North Caicos, and on the platform interior south of Providenciales provide an image of the top-Pleistocene surface, the thickness of Holocene sediments, and the present distribution of facies, biogenic...