The following reading materials are on 3-day, traditional reserve at Polk Library:

1. Scoffin, T.P., 1987, An introduction to carbonate sediments and rocks: Chapman and Hall, New York, 274 p.
   
   P. 12-14, Chapter 12-15, p. 146-220. Carbonate Environments.
   
   
2. James, N.P. and Choquette, P.W., 1990, Limestones: an introduction: p. 9-11.
   James, N.P. and Choquette, P.W., 1990, Limestones—The sea-floor diagenetic environment: p.  13-34.
   James, N.P. and Choquette, P.W., 1990, Limestones—The meteoric diagenetic environment, p. 35-73.
   
   These 3 chapters are stapled together in one folder and provide excellent summaries of how carbonate sediments are transformed into limestones beginning on the seafloor, with exposure to meteoric water (rain and groundwater), and during early burial.
   
   
3. Walker, R.G. and James, N.P. (eds.), 1992, Facies Models: response to sea level change: Geological Association of Canada, 454 p, QE651 .F26 1992.
   
   Chapter 15, p. 277-301. Jones, B. and Desrouchers, A., Shallow platform carbonates.
   Chapter 17, p. 323-347. James, N.P. and Bourque, P.-A., Reefs and Mounds.
   
   
4. Tucker, M.E. and Wright, P.W., 1990, Carbonate sedimentology: Blackwell Scientific Publications, QE471.15.C3 T83 1990.
   
   Chapter 3, Modern Carbonate Environments; Chapter 3, Shallow water .....Carbonates; Chapter 7, Diagenesis.