Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record
Edited by- Juergen Schieber, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
- Pradip Bose, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
- P.G. Eriksson, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Santanu Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
- Subir Sarkar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
- Wladyslaw Altermann, Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
- Octavian Catuneanu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Audience
Researchers and advanced graduate student in sedimentology, petrology, and petroleum geology
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Atlases in Geoscience
Atlases in Geoscience
Hardbound, 324 Pages
Published: August 2007
Imprint: Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0-444-52859-9
Contents
- 1. Prologue: an introduction to microbial mats. 2. Structures left by modern microbial mats in their host sediments. 3. Classification of structures left by microbial mats in their host sediments. 4. Mat features in sandstones. 5. Microbial mats on muddy substrates examples of possible sedimentary features and underlying processes. 6. Discussion of some problems: unusual features and the importance of terminology. 7. Examples of stratigraphic units bearing outstanding mat features. 8. New developments in research on microbial mats.9. Palaeoenvironmental and chronological relationships of mat-related features, and sequence stratigraphic implications of microbial mats. 10. Conclusions.
