Download or read book Mesozoic and Cenozoic Carbonate Systems of the Mediterranean and the Middle East written by F. S. P. Van Buchem and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of stratigraphic and diagenetic case studies of Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonate sequences from the Tethyan realm. High levels of industry and academic interest in the region have generated numerous multi-disciplinary studies of these sequences, a se-lection of which are presented in this volume. The studies presented are based on both comprehensive subsurface datasets from important hydro-carbon-bearing strata of the Middle East and the excellent surface expo-sures in the region of interest. The studies presented in this volume may serve as suitable starting points in the development of age and architecture specific carbonate reference models. Such models can form the basis of internally consistent models for carbonate deposition, sequence development and reservoir perform-ance. Ideally such models, suitably scaled, will be equally applicable to academic studies, the exploration and development phases of the field life cycle and in the prediction of future reservoir performance.