CarboCAT is a model of carbonate platform growth developed by Peter Burgess, see Burgess (2013). CarboCAT uses a cellular automata to model spatial competition between carbonate factories whose accumulation rates are dependent on environmental conditions (e.g., subsidence and sea level driven water depth, wave energy, etc.).
This Tutorial will help you quickly get started with CarboCAT and reproduce the models and results in the paper.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/LivUniQuest/CarboCAT.git- In Matlab, change the current working directory to the location where you cloned directory and run
carboCAT_Main.m
cd 'path/to/CarboCAT'
run carboCAT_Main- Improve performance in both calculation and plotting.
- Fix bugs, if any.
- Some other improvements in current algorithms.
- Adding new algorithms if possible, e.g., community dynamics modelling, hydrodynamically based sediment transport.
Copyright 2013-2025 University of Liverpool and Royal Holloway, University of London
Distributed under the Apache License. See LICENSE for more information.
Peter M. Burgess - Peter.Burgess@liverpool.ac.uk Link: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/peter-burgess/
Yangjun Wang - shinecurve@gmail.com
Burgess PM. CarboCAT: A cellular automata model of heterogeneous carbonate strata. Computers & Geosciences 2013, 53: 129–140.
Kozlowski E. Multi-scale forward modelling of microbial lacustrine carbonates. Royal Holloway, University of London, 2017.
Masiero I, Kozlowski E, Antonatos G, Xi H, Burgess P. Numerical stratigraphic forward models as conceptual knowledge repositories and experimental tools: An example using a new enhanced version of CarboCAT. Computers & Geosciences 2020, 138: 104453.