This is probably the best place in the Western Hemisphere to study nearly all of the carbonate reservoirs we explore for at the same scale at which we explore for them. We will see a wide range of modern carbonate facies:  tidal flats, platform shoals, shelf margin reef-shoal complexes, patch reefs, pinacle reefs, platform atolls, and basinal atolls. We will see the structural controls on the facies as well as the interplay of clastics and carbonates on the platform.  Observation of the modern sediments will be related to impregnated slabbed cores and subsurface log and seismic examples from a variety of places around the world.

 Barrier reef and grainstone shoal complex at the           The coral Acropora palmata growing profusely
 shelf margin. We will snorkle through this feature          on the barrier reef.
 several times.

    Atolls on the platform in southern Belize. We will       Pinnacle reefs (up to 130 feet tall) on the platform
    snorkle around one and into the central lagoon.         side of the barrier reef which can faintly be seen
                                                                                 in the background.

   Our home for the first four nights, San Pedro on
   Ambergris Cay.

Length:  7 days

Starts/Ends:  Houston, with 4 days in San Pedro (Ambergris Cay) and 2 days in Dangriga

Cost:  $3000.00 US which includes all air connections, a charter overflight of the carbonate platform and offshore atolls, rooms (double occupancy), water transportation, lunches, and manual.

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Note:  You will need to bring snorkel gear, or it can can be rented on-site.