Geology of Giant Petroleum Fields

This book is divided into three sections: Carbonate Sediments and Reefs, Yucatan Shelf Mexico; Tectonic Relations of Northern Central America and the Western Caribbean–Bonacca Expedition; and Other Papers on Florida and British Honduras. Although either the Yucatan section or the Bonacca Expedition papers are complete alone, together they provide a more comprehensive and valuable treatment of the geology of the Yucatan shelf-Caribbean area. The subjects discussed in the two sections include Quaternary and recent sediments in the shelf areas, coral reefs and banks, bathymetry, and structural relations. The manuscript on faunas of British Honduras reef tracts and barrier lagoons is very closely related to both of the previously described papers, and thus adds to their completeness. These combined papers are a natural sequel to two earlier AAPG publications on marine geology. The crystalline basement rocks of Florida paper presents some original data on a related area and broadens the scope of the book.