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Syn-rift carbonate platforms in space and time: testing and refining conceptual models using stratigraphic and seismic numerical forward modelling

Isabella Masiero, Peter Burgess, Cathy Hollis, View ORCID ProfileLucy Manifold, View ORCID ProfileRob Gawthorpe, Isabelle Lecomte, Jim Marshall and Atle Rotevatn
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 509, 179-203, 16 February 2021, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP509-2019-217
Isabella Masiero
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
Roles: [Formal analysis (Lead)], [Investigation (Lead)], [Methodology (Lead)], [Software (Lead)], [Writing – original draft (Lead)], [Writing – review & editing (Lead)]
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Peter Burgess
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
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Cathy Hollis
2School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
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Lucy Manifold
2School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
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Rob Gawthorpe
3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Isabelle Lecomte
3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Jim Marshall
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
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3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Abstract

Understanding and predicting architecture and facies distribution of syn-rift carbonates is challenging owing to complex control by climatic, tectonic, biological and sedimentological factors. CarboCAT is a three-dimensional stratigraphic forward model of carbonate and mixed carbonate–siliciclastic systems that has recently been developed to include processes controlling carbonate platform development in extensional settings. CarboCAT has been used here to perform numerical experiment investigations of the various processes and factors hypothesized to control syn-rift carbonates sedimentation. Models representing three tectonic scenarios have been calculated and investigated, to characterize facies distribution and architecture of carbonate platforms developed on half-grabens, horsts and transfer zones. For each forward stratigraphic model, forward seismic models have also been calculated, so that modelled stratal geometries presented as synthetic seismic images can be directly compared with seismic images of subsurface carbonate strata. The CarboCAT models and synthetic seismic images corroborate many elements of the existing syn-rift and early-post-rift conceptual model, but also expand these models by describing how platform architecture and spatial facies distributions vary along-strike between hanging-wall, footwall and transfer zone settings. Synthetic seismic images show how platform margins may appear in seismic data, showing significant differences in overall seismic character between prograding and backstepping stacking patterns.

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Syn-rift carbonate platforms in space and time: testing and refining conceptual models using stratigraphic and seismic numerical forward modelling

Isabella Masiero, Peter Burgess, Cathy Hollis, Lucy Manifold, Rob Gawthorpe, Isabelle Lecomte, Jim Marshall and Atle Rotevatn
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 509, 179-203, 16 February 2021, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP509-2019-217
Isabella Masiero
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
Roles: [Formal analysis (Lead)], [Investigation (Lead)], [Methodology (Lead)], [Software (Lead)], [Writing – original draft (Lead)], [Writing – review & editing (Lead)]
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Peter Burgess
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
Roles: [Conceptualization (Lead)], [Funding acquisition (Lead)], [Investigation (Supporting)], [Methodology (Supporting)], [Project administration (Lead)], [Resources (Lead)], [Software (Supporting)], [Supervision (Lead)], [Writing – review & editing (Supporting)]
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Cathy Hollis
2School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
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Lucy Manifold
2School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
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Rob Gawthorpe
3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Isabelle Lecomte
3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Jim Marshall
1Quantitative Experimental Stratigraphy Group, Jane Herdman Laboratory, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K
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3Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, Bergen, N-5020, Norway
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Isabella Masiero, Peter Burgess, Cathy Hollis, Lucy Manifold, Rob Gawthorpe, Isabelle Lecomte, Jim Marshall and Atle Rotevatn
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 509, 179-203, 16 February 2021, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP509-2019-217
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