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North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Eulàlia Gili

    1. Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Mohamed Hédi Negra

    1. Departement des Sciences de la Terre, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

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  3. Peter W. Skelton

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Great Britain

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 28)

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This volume arises from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on 'North African Cretaceous rudist and coral formations and their contributions to carbonate platform development , which was held in Tunisia, on 13-18 May, 2002. It was convened by M. El Hedi Negra (Universite 7 Novembre de Carthage, now Universite de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) and Eulalia Gili (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). The aims of the ARW were: (1) to review and critically assess currently available data on rudist/coral formations in North African Cretaceous carbonate platforms, and their correlations, and to integrate these data with other studies around the Mediterranean; (2) to place the findings in a global context, noting both similarities with other regions of platform development as well as local differences, and (3) exploring possible reasons for these; and to help promote the creation of a vibrant peri-Mediterranean collaborative research community, embracing researchers from the entire region, to carry forward this ambitious research programme. Twenty-two presentations (oral and poster) provided both topical reviews (covering rudist evolution, and ecology, mineralogical changes, applications of strontium isotope, and graphic correlation methods, and platform typology) as well as regional syntheses (Tunisian reservoirs, Moroccan platform history, Tunisian platforms and rudist/coral facies, Algerian platforms, and Egyptian platforms). Fifteen of these presentations are expanded here as papers. The workshop was attended by 24 academic staff, 4 geologists from the oil industry, plus several observers and students.

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Regional Syntheses

    1. High Resolution North African Cretaceous Stratigraphy: Status

      • R. W. Scott
      Pages 1-17

    2. Mesozoic Carbonate Platforms and Associated Siliciclastic Spreadings in Morocco

      • J. Canerot, B. Andreu, D. Chafiki, Kh. El Hariri, A. Souhel
      Pages 19-29

    3. Genesis and Diagenesis of the Gattar Carbonate Platform, Lower Turonian, Northern Southern Tunisia

      • H. Abdallah
      Pages 31-51

    4. The Growth and Migration of Two Turonian Rudist-Bearing Carbonate Platforms in Central Tunisia. Eustatic and Tectonic Controls

      • J. Touir, M. Soussi
      Pages 53-81

    5. Cretaceous Coral-Rudist Formations in Tunisia

      • D. Zaghbib-Turki
      Pages 83-110

    6. Turonian Rudist-Coral Limestones in Jebel Bireno, Central Tunisia

      • M. F. Zagrarni, M. H. Negra, S. Melki
      Pages 111-128

    7. Upper Cretaceous Platform-Derived Conglomerates in Central Tunisia: Significance and Genesis Mode

      • M. H. Negra
      Pages 129-141

    8. Palaeogeographic Context of Cenomanian and Turonian Carbonate Platforms in the Eastern Atlasic Domain

      • M. Herkat
      Pages 143-160

    9. Stratigraphic and Geographic Distribution of Rudists in Algeria: A State of the Art

      • F. Chikhi-Aouimeur
      Pages 161-170

    10. Cretaceous — Paleogene Sequence Stratigraphy of the Levant Platform (Egypt, Sinai, Jordan)

      • J. Kuss, A. Bassiouni, J. Bauer, M. Bachmann, A. Marzouk, C. Scheibner et al.
      Pages 171-187

    11. Sedimentological and Taphonomic Characterization of Low-Energy Rudist-Dominated Senonian Carbonate Shelves (Southern Apennines, Italy)

      • G. Carannante, D. Ruberti, L. Simone
      Pages 189-201

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 249-252
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    Eulàlia Gili

  • Departement des Sciences de la Terre, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Mohamed Hédi Negra

  • Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Great Britain

    Peter W. Skelton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems

  • Editors: Eulàlia Gili, Mohamed Hédi Negra, Peter W. Skelton

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series: IV:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0015-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1606-6Published: 30 November 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1607-3Published: 30 November 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0015-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1568-1238

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 252

  • Topics: Sedimentology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry

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