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Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution

C. L. V. Monty (Editor), D. W. J. Bosence (Editor), P. H. Bridges (Editor), B. R. Pratt (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-86542-933-8
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544 pages
August 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction and Overviews.

A review of the origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds.

The rise and nature of carbonate mud-mounds: an introductory actualistic approach.

The origin, biota and evolution of deep-water mud-mounds.

Palaeozoic Mud-Mounds.

Shallow water stromatactis mud-mounds on a middle Ordovician foreland basin platform, western Newfoundland.

Silurian microbial build-ups of the Canadian Arctic.

The environmental setting of Early Carboniferous mud-mounds.

Waulsortian banks.

Carbonate mud-mounds in the Fort Payne Formation (lower Carboniferous), Cumberland Saddle region, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA.

Late Dinantian (Brigantian) carbonate mud-mounds of the Derbyshire carbonate platform.

Mesozoic Mud-Mounds.

Mud-mounds with reefal caps in the upper Muschelkalk (Triassic), eastern Spain.

Initiation and development of small-scale sponge mud-mounds, Late Jurassic, Southern Franconian Alb, Germany.

Albian carbonate mounds: comparative study in the context of sea-level variations (Soba, northern Spain).

Nature and origin of late Cretaceous mud-mounds, North Africa.

Sedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia.

Cenozoic Mud-Mounds.

An Eocene biodetrital mud-mound from the southern Pyrenean foreland basin, Spain: an ancient analogue for Florida Bay mounds?.

Origin and growth of carbonate banks in south Florida.

Anatomy of a Recent biodetrital mud-mound, Florida Bay, USA.

Growth and burrow-transformation of carbonate banks: comparison of modern skeletal banks of south Florida and Pennsylvanian phylloid banks of south-eastern Kansas, USA.

Index

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