Model:Cyclopath

Cyclopath

Model:	Cyclopath
Contact person:	Peter Burgess (Model developer)
Institute:	Royal Holloway University of London
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Email:	p.burgess@es.rhul.ac.uk
2nd person involved:	--
3rd person involved:	--

Model type:	Single model for the carbonate domain.
Description:	A 2D or 3D model of carbonate sediment production and transport that generates high-frequency platform top auto and allocycles as well as various aspects of large scale platform geomtry

Supported platforms:	Unix, Linux
Programming language:	C
Model was developed started from:	1998 and ended in 2005
To what degree will the model become available:	As code
Current license type:	--
Memory requirements:	variable
Typical run time:	minutes to hours

Input parameters:	Various text files defining initial conditions and parameter values
Input format:	ASCII
Output parameters:	A 3D cube of model strata coded by water depth of deposition and thickness transported versus thickness deposited in-situ per time step
Output format:	ASCII
Post-processing software (if needed):	Yes, GMT routines or Matlab
Visualization software (if needed):	Yes, Matlab, GMT.

Processes represented by model:	Subsidence and uplift Eustatic oscillations Water depth dependent in-situ carbonate production Spatial variations in sediment production rate Depth dependent sediment transport Diffusional sediment transport
Key physical parameters & equations:	See Burgess et al. (2001), Basin Research
Length scale & resolution constraints:	10s to 100s km length scale
Time scale & resolution constraints:	Internal time step years to decades Model chron resolution 1000 years Total run time 1-10 My
Numerical limitations and issues :	Diffusion and other sediment transport routines require short time steps

Available calibration data sets:	Any outcrop data showing (or purporting to show) cyclical platform interior strata
Available test data sets:	--
Ideal data for testing:	--

Currently or plans for collaborating with:	No, but open to suggestions

Key papers of the model:	Burgess, P.M., Wright, V.P. & Emery, D. (2001) Numerical forward modelling of a peritidal carbonate parasequence development: implications for outcrop interpretation. Basin Research, 13, p.1-16. Burgess, P.M. (2001) Modelling Carbonate Sequence Development without Relative Sea Level Oscillations, Geology, vol. 29, p. 1127-1130. Barnett, A.J., Burgess, P.M., and Wright, V.P. (2002), Icehouse world sea-level behaviour and resulting stratal patterns in late Visean (Mississippian) carbonate platforms: integration of numerical forward modelling and outcrop studies, Basin Research, v.14, p.417-438. Burgess, P.M., and Wright, V.P, (2003) Numerical forward modelling of carbonate platform dynamics: An evaluation of complexity and completeness, Journal of Sedimentary research, v.73, p.637-652. Burgess, P.M., and Emery, D. (2005), Sensitive dependence, divergence and unpredictable behaviour in a stratigraphic forward model of a carbonate system, in Curtis, A., and Wood, R. (eds.) Geological prior information: informing science and engineering, Geological Society, London, Special Publication 239, p.77-94. Burgess, P.M., 2006, The signal and the noise: forward modeling of allocyclic and autocyclic processes influencing peritidal carbonate stacking patterns, Journal of Sedimentary Research; v. 76; no. 7; p. 962-977.
Is there a manual available:	No
Model website if any:	--

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