Calcareous Algae and Stromatolites

✍ Scribed by A. Pentecost (auth.), Dr. Robert Riding (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 575
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of calcareous algae and stromatolites. It contains reviews by leading specialists of major groups, together with accounts of floras through time. It deals with marine and non-marine, benthic and planktic, and modern as well as ancient examples. As the first multi-authored review of the field ever published in English, it is an essential reference text for this complex field. It is designed for both postgraduate researchers and professional scientists who require up-to-date and authoritative information on these long-ranging organisms and fabrics which are of wide evolutionary, environmental and sedimentary significance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Calcification Processes in Algae and Cyanobacteria....Pages 3-20
Classification of Microbial Carbonates....Pages 21-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Calcified Cyanobacteria....Pages 55-87
The Solenoporaceae: A General Point of View....Pages 88-97
Coralline Algae: Mineralization, Taxonomy, and Palaeoecology....Pages 98-113
Cyclocrinitids....Pages 114-124
Dasycladalean Algae of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic....Pages 125-130
Cenozoic and Recent Dasycladales....Pages 131-145
Fossil Udoteaceae and Gymnocodiaceae....Pages 146-166
Recent Calcified Halimedaceae....Pages 167-188
The Genus Concept in Charophyta: Evidence from Palaeozoic to Recent....Pages 189-203
Calcification of the Charophyte Oosporangium....Pages 204-216
Calcareous Nannofossils....Pages 217-266
Fossil Calcareous Dinoflagellate Cysts....Pages 267-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Archaean and Proterozoic Stromatolites....Pages 289-304
Cambrian Calcareous Cyanobacteria and Algae....Pages 305-334
Ordovician Algae and Global Tectonics....Pages 335-348
Ordovician to Devonian Marine Calcareous Algae....Pages 349-369
Carboniferous Calcareous Algae....Pages 370-451
Permian Marine Calcareous Algae....Pages 452-480
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Triassic and Jurassic Marine Calcareous Algae: A Critical Review....Pages 481-503
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Marine Benthic Calcareous Algae with Particular Regard to Mesozoic Dasycladaleans....Pages 504-540
Modern Stromatolites: A Review....Pages 541-561
Back Matter....Pages 563-571

✦ Subjects

Sedimentology; Geology; Zoology