Anatomy of a submarine channel system and related fan in a foramol/rhodalgal carbonate sedimentary setting: a case history from the Miocene syn-rift Sardinia Basin, Italy

Detailed analysis has led to the reconstruction of the internal geometry and depositional architecture of these carbonate bodies and to the determination of the main controlling factors. The dimension and distribution of channel and channel-related depositional bodies have been accurately determined. This information provides a useful tool to analyse less extensively exposed analogues and to model foramol shelf to basin transitions and related channel and fan systems.