Carbonate depositional systems: Assessing dimensions and controlling parameters. The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian gulf / Системы карбонатных отложений: оценка размеров и контроль параметров. Багамские острова, Белиз и Персидский залив

This book was initiated by a study conducted at Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences for Shell Research. For the present book this study has been considerably enlarged and modified. The book has benefited from discussions with numerous colleagues, and numerous colleagues have provided us with unpublished data and information. Without this support, this book would not have been possible.

Numerous colleagues have reviewed parts of the manuscript. Gerald Friedman has reviewed the concept of the book. The Bahamas chapter has been reviewed by Paul Enos, Pascal Kindler, Andrй Strasser, and Peter Swart. The Belize chapter has been reviewed by Ian MacIntyre, Ed Purdy, and Eberhard Gischler. The Persian Gulf chapter has been reviewed by Tony Lomando and Christopher Kendall. Further reviews of various parts of the book were done by Paul Wright, Fred Read, Mitch Harris, and Bob Ginsburg. To all these colleagues we would like to extend our gratefulness. Sonja Felder and Anastasios Stathakopoulos are acknowledged for proof-reading and formatting the manuscript.

We would also like to gratefully acknowledge the support by the late Wolfgang Engel of Springer Verlag who accompanied the first preparation of this book and who did not live to see it finalized. Suzanne Mekking and Martine van Bezooijen then accompanied the project from the manuscript to the book you hold in your hands now. <...>