Features
ISBN Number: 9780444528599
Written by: Schieber, Juergen (edt)
Published by: Elsevier Science
Editor: Eriksson, P. G.
Editor: Banerjee, Santanu
Editor: Sarkar, Subir
Editor: Bose, Pradip K.
Subject: Petroleum
Subject: Earth Sciences, Geology
Subject: Earth Sciences, Oceanography
Subject: Oceanography
Copyright: 2007
Series: Atlases in Geoscience
Series Volume: 2
Date of Publication: September 2007
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 311
Book Size: 11.69 x 8.27 in
This book illustrates a wide geographic and stratigraphic range of the 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. It restricts to the siliciclastic rock record and equivalent modern settings. Much work by individuals and teams has been done on these features in the past decade but the general sedimentologist and geologist are not well informed or even aware of the range and importance of these structures. This book illustrates and fully describes all the relevant features, to accoutn for their genesis and to place their occurrence within a conceptual-process-related, and time-palaeoenvironmental context, as well considering their implications for sequence architecture.* The first full compilation of microbial mat features/structures preserved in the sliciclastic rock record
* High quality, full color photographs fully support the text
* Modern and ancient examples connect the formative processes and utilization of mat-related features in the interpretation of sedimentary rocks
