Platt, Nigel H.Wright, V. Paul2025-10-172023-02Platt, N H & Wright, V P 2023, 'Flooding of a carbonate platform : The Sian Kaʼan Wetlands, Yucatán, Mexico—A model for the formation and evolution of palustrine carbonate factories around the modern Caribbean Sea and in the depositional record', Depositional Record, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 99-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.2172055-4877ORCID: /0000-0002-1131-0704/work/194701424https://hdl.handle.net/2164/26250The authors' interests, over many years, in groundwater-dependent carbonate wetlands were inspired by the highly original and seminal publication on continental carbonates by Freytet and Plaziat (1982). Our special thanks go to Rebecca St Johnston for introducing us to the Yucatán Peninsula, to Alessandro Agostini and Edison E&P UK Ltd for supporting the project, and to Chelsea Pederson and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Guides from Amigos de Sian Ka'an provided transport in the Biosphere Reserve. Satellite images are from Google Maps and Google Earth and their partners as shown. Aerial imagery in Figure 9 is reproduced with the kind permission of locogringo.com with retrieval details as indicated.5335404460engSDG 6 - Clean Water and SanitationSDG 13 - Climate ActionSDG 14 - Life Below WaterSDG 15 - Life on Landcoastal drowningcontinental basin fillinggroundwater dependent ecosystemskarst aquifer displacementpalaeo-hydrologypalustrine carbonate factorysea-level riseYucatánQE GeologyOceanographyEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)GeologyStratigraphyPalaeontologySupplementary DataDASSupplementary InformationQEJournal article10.1002/dep2.217http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148293921&partnerID=8YFLogxK