In this, the second volume of the two-volume review of carbonates in continental settings, we continue our survey of the important aspects of their formation and the first volume emphasised the formation of carbonate sediments, covering the depositional settings, facies and sedimentological processes; this second volume examines the geochemistry, diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy of these deposits, along with some of the practical applications. The geochemistry of continental carbonates is discussed in depth in Chapter 1. The controls on the precipitation of inorganic carbonates and the resultant geochemical composition are analysed in the first part of the chapter, whereas applications of isotope geochemistry and the systematics of the geochemistry of a wide.
