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- Carbonate_platform abstract "A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonous calcareous deposits (Wilson, 1975). Platform growth is mediated by sessile organisms whose skeletons build up the reef or by organisms (usually microbes) which induce carbonate precipitation through their metabolism. Therefore, carbonate platforms can not grow up everywhere: they are not present in places where limiting factors to the life of reef-building organisms exist. Such limiting factors are, among others: light, water temperature, transparency and pH-Value. For example, carbonate sedimentation along the Atlantic South American coasts takes place everywhere but at the mouth of the Amazon River, because of the intense turbidity of the water there (Carannante et al., 1988). Spectacular examples of present-day carbonate platforms are the Bahama Banks under which the platform is roughly 8 km thick, the Yucatan Peninsula which is up to 2 km thick, the Florida platform, the platform on which the Great Barrier Reef is growing, and the Maldive atolls.[1] All these carbonate platforms and their associated reefs are confined to tropical latitudes. Today’s reefs are built mainly by scleractinian corals, but in the distant past other organisms, like archaeocyatha (during the Cambrian) or extinct cnidaria (tabulata and rugosa) were important reef builders.".
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageExternalLink blfloridamap.htm?terms=geologic+map+of+Florida.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageExternalLink description.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Alps.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Archaeocyatha.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Ocean.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Atoll.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Autotroph.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Autotrophic.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Bahama_Banks.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Bed_(geology).
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Biological.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Biology.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Bivalvia.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Boundstone_(geology).
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Carbonate.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Category:Marine_geology.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Coral_reef.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Depositional_environment.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Desiccation.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Dolomites.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Equator.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Florida.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Florida_Keys.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Foraminifer.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Foraminifera.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Gardenaccia.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Grainstone.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Great_Barrier_Reef.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Green_alga.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Green_algae.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Hermatypic.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Hermatypic_coral.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Lagoon.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Latemar.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Maldive.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Microbes.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Microorganism.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Mineral.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Mollusca.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Mud-mound.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Mudstone.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Nutrient.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Ocean_bank_(topography).
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Palaeozoic.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Paleozoic.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Porifera.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Reef.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Sassolungo.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Scleractinia.
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Sedimentary_rock.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Sella_group.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Sessility_(limnology).
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- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Stromatolite.
- Carbonate_platform wikiPageWikiLink Stromatoporoidea.