Modeling shallow marine carbonate depositional systems

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1862-1874

  Hill, Jon ^a   Tetzlaff, Daniel ^b   Curtis, Andrew ^a,c   Wood, Rachel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^c Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Geological process model; Numerical modeling; Reef; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DIFFUSIVE PROCESS; FLOW REGIMES; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS MODEL; LATERAL SHIFTS; MARINE SOURCES; NEW PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PRODUCTION RATES; RESIDENCE TIME; SEA-LEVEL OSCILLATIONS; SHALLOW MARINE; TIME-SCALES; TRACKING ALGORITHM; WATER DEPTH;

CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAKES; PROCESS MONITORING; REEFS; SAILING VESSELS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUPERSATURATION; WAVE POWER;

CARBONATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ALGORITHM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HETEROGENEITY; LAGOON; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REEF; RESIDENCE TIME; SHALLOW WATER; SUPERSATURATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMESCALE;

EID: 68749110506     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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