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Modern Carbonate Analogs

DVDs include satellite imagery and DEMs integrated into an ArcGIS Desktop project along with the research paper. Posters and papers are available as pdfs at the bottom of this page.

Water Depth

Evaluating Water-Depth Variation and Mapping Depositional Facies on Great Bahama Bank - A "Flat-Topped" Isolated Carbonate Platform Mitch Harris, Sam Purkis, and James Ellis, 2014, Short Course Notes No. 56, 2-DVD set containing research paper, GIS database, satellite imagery, DEM, GeoPDFs, and GoogleEarth files. ISBN: 978-56576-333-3. $34.00 https://sedimentary-geology-store.com/catalog/book/evaluating-water-depth-variation-and-mapping-depositional-facies-great-bahama-bank%E2%80%94

Rift Settings

Analogs for Carbonate Deposition in Early Rift Settings Mitch Harris, James Ellis, and Sam Purkis, 2012, Short Course Notes No. 55, 2-DVD set containing research paper, GIS database, satellite imagery, DEM, GeoPDFs, GoogleEarth, and Animations. ISBN: 978-1-56576-316-6. $34.00 https://sedimentary-geology-store.com/catalog/book/analogs-carbonate-deposition-early-rift-setting Houston Geological Society Presentation 24 May 2014 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_blq2fI4sDo

Facies Patterns

Delineating and Quantifying Depositional Facies Patterns of Modern Carbonate Sand Deposits, GBBMitch Harris, James Ellis, and Sam Purkis, 2010, Short Course Notes No. 54, 2-DVD set containing research paper, GIS database, satellite imagery, DEMs, GeoPDFs, GoogleEarth, ArcGIS Explorer, and Animations. ISBN: 978-1-56576-301-2 $34.00 https://sedimentary-geology-store.com/catalog/book/delineating-and-quantifying-depositional-facies-patterns-modern-carbonate-sand-deposits

Visualization

Satellite Imagery, Visualization and Geologic Interpretation of the Exumas, Great Bahamas Bank (GBB)Mitch Harris and James Ellis, 2009, Short Course Notes No. 53, 2-DVD set containing research paper, GIS database, satellite imagery, DEM, GeoPDFs, GoogleEarth, and Animations. ISBN: 978-1-56576-198-8 $34.00 https://sedimentary-geology-store.com/catalog/book/satellite-imagery-visualization-and-geological-interpretation-exumas-great-bahama-bank-
Click-on text above to open a remote sensing bathymetry poster (pdf) describing water-depth variation on the isolated carbonate platform of the Great Bahamas Bank (see SEPM Short Course Notes No. 56/DVD above). Published in 2014.
Click-on text above to open the remote sensing bathymetry map (pdf) of the Great Bahamas Bank published in 2014. Page size is 35" x 35" (90 x 90 cm)
Click-on text above to open the extended abstract (pdf) on water-depth variation and mapping depositional facies on the isolated, carbonate platform. Published in 2013 at University of Miami Center for Carbonate Research.
Click-on text above to open the paper (pdf) describing patterns of sedimentation in the contemporary red sea as an analog for ancient carbonates in rift settings. Published in 2013 in Journal of Sedimentary Research.
Click-on text above to open the poster (pdf) about using GIS to analyze and visualize carbonate analogs in support of subsurface exploration in rift settings. Published in 2012 at ESRI's PUG meeting.
Click-on text above to open the poster (pdf) about enabling easy access to analogs for carbonate deposition in early rift settings (see SEPM Short Course Notes No. 55/DVD-set above). Published in 2012 at AAPG's Annual Meeting.
Click-on text above to open the poster (pdf) demonstrating how remote sensing and GIS were used to develop bathymetry, sand body maps, and visualization products. Published in 2010 at ESRI's PUG meeting.
Click-on text above to open the poster (pdf) demonstrating how remote sensing and GIS were used to develop shoreline, topography and bathymetry, sand body maps, and visualization products (see SEPM Short Course Notes No. 53/DVD-set above).. Published in 2009 at AAPG Annual Meeting.
Click-on text above to open the poster (pdf) demonstrating how remote sensing and GIS were used to develop shoreline, topography and bathymetry, crainage channesl, and change detection. Published in 2008 at AAPG Annual Meeting.
Click-on text above to open the paper (pdf) where remote sensing and GIS are used to determine the geometry of sandbars at three large carbonate bodies on the Great Bahama Bank. The geometry data are quantitativly interrogated tand show that certain aspects of the geometry behave in a systematic and hence predictable pattern (see SEPM Short Course Notes No. 54/DVD-set above). Published in 2011 in Journal of Sedimentary Research.