Perspectives in Carbonate Geology

This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology - that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob's areas of passion: coral reefs and sea-level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments.

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SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS

**40           Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems
**From Understanding to Prediction
Edited by P. de Boer, G. Postma, K. van der Zwan, P. Burgess and P. Kukla
2008, 336 pages, 172 illustrations

39           Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products                Edited by M.J. Hambrey, P. Christoffersen, N.F. Glasser and B. Hubbard
                2007, 416 pages, 181 illustrations

**38           Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins
**                _A Tribute to Peter Friend
_                Edited by G. Nichols, E. Williams and C. Paola
                2007, 648 pages, 329 illustrations

**37           Continental Margin Sedimentation
**_From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy
_Edited by C.A. Nittrouer, J.A. Austin, M.E. Field, J.H. Kravitz, J.P.M. Syvitski and P.L. Wiberg
2007, 549 pages, 178 illustrations

36           Braided Rivers                _Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management
_                Edited by G.H. Sambrook Smith, J.L. Best, C.S. Bristow and G.E. Petts
                2006, 390 pages, 197 illustrations

**35           Fluvial Sedimentology VII
**                Edited by M.D. Blum, S.B. Marriott and S.F. Leclair
                2005, 589 pages, 319 illustrations

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**                Edited by S.D. Burley and R.H. Worden