Carbonate platform
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A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits. Platform growth is mediated by sessile organisms whose skeletons bui
The Bahama Banks are an example of a carbonate platform
An example of carbonate mud sedimentation in the internal part of the Florida Bay lagoon. The presence of young mangroves is important to entrap the carbonate mud.
Aganane Formation platform of Morocco with first order autocyclic regressive cycles
Aganane Formation metre-scale peritidal sedimentary cycles in two outcrops. The two outcrops are 230 km apart. Storm beds and possibly tsunamites include abundant reworked foraminifera. This image is an example of the continuity of peritidal cycles in a carbonate platform environment.
Resolution Guyot
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Resolution Guyot is a guyot in the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains in the Pacific Ocean. It is a circular flat mountain, rising 500 metres above the seafloor to a depth of about 1,320 metres, with a
A beach and shallow water, Cook Islands
Spaceborne image of mudflats and tidal channels on present-day Long Island, Bahamas; the former morphology of Resolution Guyot has been compared to that of the present-day Bahamas.
Vegetated island on Suwarrow