Carbonate Atlas

  • ATLAS INDEX

This online petrography atlas offers a wide range of explanatory diagrams and photomicrographs (currently more than 800 images) covering an extensive spectrum of carbonate texture, grain types, diagenetic features, depositional environments and case studies.

classification types

Carbonate Rock Classification

This section introduces the components and classification diagram of carbonate rocks and displays sets of images for each carbonate texture type.

Peloids

Non-Skeletal Grain types

This section presents a wide range of non-skeletal carbonate grain types.

Skeletal Types Cover

Skeletal Grain types

This section presents a wide range of skeletal carbonate grain types

diagenesis

Carbonate Rock Diagenesis

This section includes various examples of carbonate diagenesis products ranging from marine, meteoric, burial diagenesis to dolomitization and porosity types.