Geometry of Carbonate Platforms
Several factors influence the geometry of a carbonate platform, including inherited topography, synsedimentary tectonics, exposition to currents and trade winds. However, the one most important factor is perhaps the type of carbonate factory. Thus, cool-water factories tend to generate ramps, tropical factories usually form high-relief rimmed platforms and mud-mounds, mound-shaped high relief bodies without a clear zone of dip break. The best known platform geometry, however, is that of modern tropical factories. Tropical carbonate platforms can be subdivided into three principal sedimentary environments: reef, internal lagoon and slope.
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