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
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
Recenzijas
"The results summarized in this book have already helped to open up an exciting avenue in the study of microbial evolution, and the atlas itself will undoubtedly serve as an invaluable aid to researchers in the field." --Mike Tice, Texas A & M University, writing in the Journal of Sedimentary Research
Papildus informācija
The first, full account of mats in terrigenous clastics
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Prologue: An Introduction to Microbial Mats |
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Structures Left by Modern Microbial Mats in Their Host Sediments |
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Classification of Structures Left by Microbial Mats in Their Host Sediments |
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Mat Features in Sandstones |
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Diagenetic Features Related to Mat Metabolism and Decay |
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Complex Structures Associated with Siliciclastic Biolaminites |
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Microbial Mats on Muddy Substrates - Examples of Possible Sedimentary Features and Underlying Processes |
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Discussion of Some Problems: Unusual Features and the Importance of Terminology |
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`Wrinkle Structures' - A Critical Review |
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Some Unusual and/or Problematic Inferred Mat-Related Features |
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Inherent Problems of Terminology: Definition of Terms Frequently Used in Connection with Microbial Mats |
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Examples of Stratigraphic Units Bearing Outstanding Mat Features |
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Microbially-Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) of Early and Middle Archaean Ages - Moodies Group, Pongola Supergroup, Witwatersrand Supergroup (South Africa) |
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Microbial Mat Features in Terrigenous Clastics of the Belt Supergroup, Mid-Proterozoic of Montana, USA |
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Microbial Mat Features in Mudstones of the Mesoproterozoic Somanpalli Group, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India |
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Mat-Related Features from Sandstones of the Vindhyan Supergroup in Central India |
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Benthic Microbial Mats in Black Shale Units from the Vindhyan Supergroup, Middle Proterozoic of India: The Challenges of Recognising the Genuine Article |
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Mat-Related Features from the Neoproterozoic Tizi n-Taghatine Group, Anti-Atlas Belt, Morocco |
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Microbial Mat Sedimentary Structures and Their Relation to Organic-Carbon Burial in the Middle Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA |
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Mat-Related Features from the Terminal Ediacaran Nudaus Formation, Nama Group, Namibia |
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Ripple Patches in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone Near Denver, Colorado, a Classical Locality for Microbially Bound Tidal Sand Flats |
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Benthic Microbial Mats as an Oil Shale Component: Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming and Utah |
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New Developments in Research on Microbial Mats |
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Microbial Mats Built by Iron Bacteria: A Modern Example from Southern Indiana |
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Disruption of Mats by Seismic Events |
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Flume Experiments on the Durability of Sandy Microbial Mat Fragments During Transport |
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Hydraulic Conditions and Mat-Related Structures in Tidal Flats and Coastal Sabkhas |
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Palaeoenvironmental and Chronological Relationships of Mat-Related Features, and Sequence Stratigraphic Implications of Microbial Mats |
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Palaeogeography of Microbial Mats in Terrigenous Clastics - Environmental Distribution of Associated Sedimentary Features and the Role of Geologic Time |
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Sequence Stratigraphic Context of Microbial Mat Features |
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| Reference List |
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Professor Wladyslaw Altermann is a regional geologist with expertise in Precambrian sedimentary systems, carbonate rocks, early life evolution, and more recently, CO sequestration in South Africa. Originally from Poland, he earned his MSc and PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Free University of Berlin (West), focusing on Permo-Carboniferous rocks of Thailand and Malaysia. He also worked for the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover and in Peru.
In 1988, Prof. Altermann moved to South Africa, which became his third home. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Stellenbosch, he returned to Germany to join LMU Munich, where he completed his second doctorate (Dr. habil.) in 1998, studying Archean carbonates, stromatolites, BIFs, and the western Kaapvaal Craton's structural geology.
Prof. Altermann held postdoctoral positions at UCLA (USA), CBMCNRS Orléans (France), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He later became Associate Professor at LMU Munich, where he served as interim chair for several professorial positions and served as Honorary Professor at Shandong University of Technology (China) from 2003 to 2005. In 2009, he returned permanently to South Africa, joining the University of Pretoria as the Kumba-Exxaro Chair in Geodynamics of Mineral Deposits (mining industry supported Chair) and later becoming Head of the Department of Geology.
Throughout his career, Prof. Altermann has been deeply involved in the scientific community, serving on national committees and editorial boards for international journals and as editor of books and special volumes. He was a Vice-President of the Geological Society of Africa and Chairman of the South African Committee for Stratigraphy. He retired from UP in 2019 and has since been working as a freelance geological consultant in Pretoria.
Octavian Catuneanu is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, with PhD degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Bucharest. He is the recipient of several distinctions in the field of Geology, including the W.W. Hutchison Medal of the Geological Association of Canada for exceptional advances in earth science research, and best paper awards from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, the Geological Society of America, and the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Octavian Catuneanu served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, Chair of the Task Group on Sequence Stratigraphy of the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Chair of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, and member of the editorial board of several journals in North America, Europe, and Africa. He is the editor of several books and special issues, author of numerous publications in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and basin analysis, and instructor of sequence stratigraphy and related disciplines for universities, conferences, and companies worldwide. The first edition of his Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy textbook (Elsevier, 2006) received the 2007 Outstanding Academic Title Choice Award from the American Library Association and remains a best-selling title.
