Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin And Evolution

Description:
Mud-mounds are build-ups of biogenic carbonate sediment and are economically important as hosts of lead-zinc mineralization as well as oil and gas deposits. This is the first book to investigate the structure, origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds. It reviews the different mechanisms, principally microbial and detrital, of mud-mound formation; and examines in detail the major changes in mud-mound type and occurrence through geological time. The major part of the book, written by an international team of authors, contains case studies of mud-mounds from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic drawn from around the world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction and OverviewsA review of the origin and evolution of carbonate mud-moundsThe rise and nature of carbonate mud-mounds: an introductory actualistic approachThe origin, biota and evolution of deep-water mud-mounds Palaeozoic Mud-MoundsShallow water stromatactis mud-mounds on a middle Ordovician foreland basin platform, western NewfoundlandSilurian microbial build-ups of the Canadian ArcticThe environmental setting of Early Carboniferous mud-moundsWaulsortian banksCarbonate mud-mounds in the Fort Payne Formation (lower Carboniferous), Cumberland Saddle region, Kentucky and Tennessee, USALate Dinantian (Brigantian) carbonate mud-mounds of the Derbyshire carbonate platform Mesozoic Mud-MoundsMud-mounds with reefal caps in the upper Muschelkalk (Triassic), eastern SpainInitiation and development of small-scale sponge mud-mounds, Late Jurassic, Southern Franconian Alb, GermanyAlbian carbonate mounds: comparative study in the context of sea-level variations (Soba, northern Spain)Nature and origin of late Cretaceous mud-mounds, North AfricaSedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia Cenozoic Mud-MoundsAn 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 FloridaAnatomy of a Recent biodetrital mud-mound, Florida Bay, USAGrowth and burrow-transformation of carbonate banks: comparison of modern skeletal banks of south Florida and Pennsylvanian phylloid banks of south-eastern Kansas, USA Index