Plate-Tectonic Controls on Diagenesis

High Rate Relative Sea Level Rise Carbonate Ramp Established 

Rate of Relative Sea Level Rise Slows Ramp Evolves Into Rimmed Shelf 

Relative Sea Level Highstand Rimmed Shelf Evolves Into High Energy Shelf 

Relative Sea Level Fall Shelf Becomes Emergent Karst Platform 

Parameter Mid-Ocean Ridge and Oceanic Inlraplate Trailing Plate-Continental Margin Subduct) on (Trench) Continent- Continent Collision Rift Basins Intra-Plate (Craion) 

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Plate tectonics is a major driving force affecting Earth s surface environment. The kind and intensity of the physico-chemical parameters that control diagenetic pathways are determined to some degree directly or indirectly by plate tectonic processes. The plate tectonic environment exerts a direct control on diagenesis, whereas changes in Earth s surface chemistry induced by changes in... 

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