This book deals with microbial mats, stromatolites and coated grains. Recent and ancient stromatolitic ecosystems are described in peritidal environments, including siliciclastic, carbonaceous and evaporite-dominated back-barrier systems. Various relevant categories were distinguished: - mat-forming microbiota - environmental conditions controlling mat types and lithology - bioturbation and grazing. Recent and ancient microbial mat systems show a latitudinal arrangement which can be used for paleoclimatological and paleogeographical reconstructions. This book should be of special interest to sedimentologists, coastal engineers, ecologists, zoologists, salt plant engineers and marine scientists, as well as to students interested in these fields.

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Book Title: Biolaminated Deposits
Editors: Gisela Gerdes, Wolfgang E. Krumbein
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0021878
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-17937-5Published: 03 June 1987
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47117-2Published: 23 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0930-0317
Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 183
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sedimentology, Ecology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

Front Matter

Layered sediment accretion by microbes

Stromatolite environments in the peritidal zone

Spanning the gap between microbiology and geology

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