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Volume: 58 (1974)

Issue: 5. (May)

First Page: 787

Last Page: 799

Title: Development of Western Canadian Devonian Reefs and Comparison with Holocene Analogues

Author(s): J. E. Klovan (2)

Abstract:

The complex interplay of basin geometry and tectonic history, subsidence rate, weather conditions, and postdepositional history is the factor determining the ultimate morphology of a reef tract, individual reefs comprising the tract, and the lithologic variations within the reefs. Although the effects of these influences usually can be documented in studies of recent reefs, their determination in fossil settings is commonly obscure. This may preclude the use of recent reefs as explicit analogues of ancient ones.

The applicability and limitations of such comparisons with reference to some Devonian reefs of western Canada and various Holocene structures indicate that the variety of reef tracts available for study allows the various causal influences to be isolated to a first order of approximation.

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