Carbonate mounds: sedimentation, organismal response, and diagenesis

✍ Scribed by David C Kopaska-Merkel; Douglas W Haywick

• Book ID: 104165312
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 145
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0037-0738
• DOI: 10.1016/s0037-0738(01)00145-2

✦ Synopsis

Bioherms that lack frameworks (''carbonate mounds''; we do not use the term mud-mounds because some mounds contain little mud) are unique organosedimentary features found in environments ranging from freshwater lakes to deep marine slopes. Once widely considered as simple build-ups of carbonate mud that contained and were influenced by sessile metazoans (e.g. Blatt et al., 1972;Wilson, 1975), mounds now are regarded by many researchers as diverse complexes that overlap in composition, primary physical characteristics, and diagenesis with ''ecological'' reefs like modern tropical shallow water coral reefs (e.g.