North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems (Paperback)

REGIONAL SYNTHESES.- High resolution North African Cretaceous stratigraphy: status.- Mesozoic carbonate platforms and associated siliciclastic spreadings in Morocco.- Genesis and diagenesis of the Gattar carbonate platform, Lower Turonian, northern southern Tunisia.- The growth and migration of two Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms in Central Tunisia. Eustatic and tectonic controls.- Cretaceous coral-rudist formations in Tunisia. Paleogeography and Paleoecology.- Turonian rudist-coral limestones in Jebel Bireno, Central Tunisia.- Upper Cretaceous platform-derived conglomerates in Central Tunisia: significance and genesis mode.- Palaeogeographic context of Cenomanian and Turonian carbonate platforms in the eastern Atlasic domain.- Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of rudists in Algeria: a state of the art.- Cretaceous - Paleogene sequence stratigraphy of the Levant Platform (Egypt, Sinai, Jordan).- Sedimentological and taphonomic characterization of low-energy rudist-dominated Senonian carbonate shelves (southern Apennines, Italy).- TOPICAL REVIEWS.- Integrated stratigraphy of the lower Aptian and applications to carbonate platforms: a state of the art.- Rudist evolution and extintion - a North African perspective.- Strontium isotope chemostratigraphy of rudist bivalves and Cretaceous carbonate platforms.- Use of hippuritids for interpreting carbonate platform environments.