Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record (eBook)

Wladyslaw Altermann, Santanu Banerjee, Pradip K. Bose, Octavian Catuneanu, P.G. Eriksson, Subir Sarkar, Juergen Schieber (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 1. Auflage
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Elsevier Science (Verlag)
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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

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Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient terrigenous clastic sedimentary successions. By combining modern and ancient examples, the connection is made to likely formative processes and the utilization of these features in the interpretation of ancient sedimentary rocks. 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

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record 4
Copyright page 5
List of Editors 6
List of Authors 8
Acknowledgements 10
Contents 12
Chapter 1. Prologue: An Introduction to Microbial Mats 14
Chapter 2. Structures Left by Modern Microbial Mats in Their Host Sediments 18
Introduction 18
Organisation of photographic material 18
Terminology 20
Environmental associations 20
Inferred sedimentary and biologic processes, ideas on genesis 22
Chapter 3. Classification of Structures Left by Microbial Mats in Their Host Sediments 52
Introduction 52
Schieber's (2004) classification 53
Complex structures 59
Conclusions 64
Chapter 4. Mat Features in Sandstones 66
Introduction 66
4(a). Mat growth features 66
4(b). Diagenetic Features Related to Mat Metabolism and Decay 85
4(c). Mat-Destruction Features 89
4(d). Mat-Decay Features 119
4(f)Diagenetic Mat Features 124
Complex Structures Associated with Siliciclastic Biolaminites 124
Chapter 5. Microbial Mats on Muddy Substrates - Examples of Possible Sedimentary Features and Underlying Processes 130
Introduction 130
Features related to mat growth 130
Features related to physical forces acting on mat stabilised mud layers 134
Features related to mat metabolism 138
Features related to mat decay and diagenesis 140
Conclusion 142
Chapter 6. Discussion of Some Problems: Unusual Features and the Importance of Terminology 148
Introduction 148
6(a). `Wrinkle Structures' - A Critical Review 148
6(b). Some Unusual and/or Problematic Inferred Mat-Related Features 158
6(c). Inherent Problems of Terminology: Definition of Terms Frequently Used in Connection with Microbial Mats 158
Chapter 7. Examples of Stratigraphic Units Bearing Outstanding Mat Features 166
Introduction 166
7(a). Microbially-Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) of Early and Middle Archaean Ages - Moodies Group, Pongola Supergroup, Witwatersrand Supergroup (South Africa) 166
7(b). Microbial Mat Features in Terrigenous clastics of the Belt Supergroup, Mid-Proterozoic of Montana, USA 171
7(c). Microbial Mat Features in Mudstones of the Mesoproterozoic Somanpalli Group, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India 184
7(d). Mat-Related Features from Sandstones of the Vindhyan Supergroup in Central India 194
7(e). Benthic Microbial Mats in Black Shale Units from the Vindhyan Supergroup, Middle Proterozoic of India: The Challenges of Recognising the Genuine Article 202
7(f). Mat-Related Features from the Neoproterozoic Tizi n-Taghatine Group, Anti-Atlas Belt, Morocco 211
7(g). Microbial Mat Sedimentary Structures and Their Relation to Organic-Carbon Burial in the Middle Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA 221
7(h). Mat-Related Features from the Terminal Ediacaran Nudaus Formation, Nama Group, Namibia 227
7(i). Ripple Patches in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone Near Denver, Colorado, a Classical Locality for Microbially Bound Tidal Sand Flats 235
7(j). Benthic Microbial Mats as an Oil Shale Component: Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming and Utah 238
Chapter 8. New Developments in Research on Microbial Mats 246
Introduction 246
8(a). Microbial Mats Built by Iron Bacteria: A Modern Example from Southern Indiana 246
8(b). Disruption of Mats by Seismic Events 258
8(c). Flume Experiments on the Durability of Sandy Microbial Mat Fragments During Transport 261
8(d). Hydraulic Conditions and Mat-Related Structures in Tidal Flats and Coastal Sabkhas 271
Appendix A 275
Chapter 9. Palaeoenvironmental and Chronological Relationships of Mat-Related Features, and Sequence Stratigraphic Implications of Microbial Mats 280
Introduction 280
9(a). Palaeogeography of Microbial Mats in Terrigenous Clastics - Environmental Distribution of Associated Sedimentary Features and the Role of Geologic Time 280
9(b). Sequence stratigraphic context of microbial mat features 289
Chapter 10. Conclusions 298
Reference List 302
Subject Index 320

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