Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved Within the Siliciclastic - Rock Recor

Illustrates the geographic and stratigraphic range of features and structures to be seen within the modern and preserved rock record which can be ascribed to the presence and/or influence of microbials mats; with an accent on the Precambrian record.

List of 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

Report

"The results summarized in this book have already helped to open up an exciting avenue in the study of microbial evolution, and the atlas itself will undoubtedly serve as an invaluable aid to researchers in the field." --Mike Tice, Texas A & M University, writing in the Journal of Sedimentary Research

Product details

• Authors: Juergen Bose Schieber, SCHIEBER JUERGEN BOSE PRADIP KUM
• Assisted by: Wladyslaw Altermann (Editor), Wladyslaw (Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich Altermann (Editor), Santanu Banerjee (Editor), Santanu (Indian Institute of Technology Banerjee (Editor), Banerjee Santanu (Editor), Pradip K Bose (Editor), Pradip K. Bose (Editor), Pradip K. (Jadavpur University Bose (Editor), Octavian Catuneanu (Editor), Octavian (Professor Catuneanu (Editor), Catuneanu Octavian (Editor), P G Eriksson (Editor), P. G. Eriksson (Editor), P.G. Eriksson (Editor), P.g. (University of Pretoria Eriksson (Editor), Pradip K. Bose (Editor), Subir Sarkar (Editor), Subir (Jadavpur University Sarkar (Editor), Sarkar Subir (Editor), Juergen Schieber (Editor), Juergen (Indiana University Schieber (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2007
• EAN: 9780444528599
• ISBN: 978-0-444-52859-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 305 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Atlases in Geoscience
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), sedimentologists; soft-rock academics; petroleum industry