Day 1
I. Controls on carbonate production, effects of temperature, latitude, depth, salinity and the distribution of reservoir facies.
Carbonate Microfacies: classification schemes of Dunham and Folk, reef rock classification, microbialite classification, the concept of microfacies and introduction to non-skeletal (cortoids, ooids, pisoids, oncoids, grapestones, intraclasts, extraclasts) and skeletal (coral, bryozoans, algae, molluscs, forams and more) grain types, and carbonate matrix.
II. Exercise: Modern carbonate depositional environments, facies distribution