1. Microbial carbonates and reefs: An introduction

   • Erik Flügel
   • Gero Hillmer
   • Joachim Scholz

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Modern cryptic microbialite/metazoan facies from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia) formation and concepts

   • Joachim Reitner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 39

3. Microbial carbonate crusts-a key to the environmental analysis of fossil spongiolites?

   • Helmut Keupp
   • Angela Jenisch
   • Joachim Reitner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 54

4. The origin of High-Mg-Calcite microbialites in cryptic habitats of Caribbean coral reefs—Their dependence on light and turbulence

   • Heinrich Zankl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 59

5. Contribution of microbial mats to sedimentary surface structures

   • Gisela Gerdes
   • Marianne Claes
   • Hans-Erich Reineck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 74

6. The influence of culture conditions on growth and sheath development of calcifying cyanobacteria

   • Martina U. E. Merz
   • Heinrich Zankl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 80

7. Biology of carbonate precipitation by cyanobacteria

   • M. U. E. Merz

   Correction Pages: 80 - 80

8. The distribution of microborings in molluscan shells from recent reef environments at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas

   • Gudrun Radtke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 92

9. Biomarker indications for microbial contribution to Recent and Late Jurassic carbonate deposits

   • Jens Hefter
   • Volker Thiel
   • Walter Michaelis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 105

10. Indications for microbial clues for bryozoans when settling

    • Joachim Scholz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 118

11. Larval behaviour and choice of settlement site: Correlation with environmental distribution pattern in an erect bryozoan

    • Frank Kenneth McKinney
    • Marjorie Jackson McKinney

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 131

12. Coralline algal maerl frameworks-Islands within the phaeophytic kelp belt

    • André Freiwald

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 148

13. Microatoll microbialites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: Morphological analogues ofCryptozoön proliferum Hall, the first formally-named stromatolite

    • Robert V. Burne
    • Linda S. Moore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 168

14. Early ordovician microbial-sponge-receptaculitid bioherms of the precordillera, western Argentina

    • Fernando Cañas
    • Marcelo Carrera

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 178

15. A microbial model for the Lower Devonian stromatactis mud mounds of the Montagne Noire (France)

    • Gerd Flajs
    • Hansmartin Hüssner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 193

16. Microbial crusts of the late jurassic: Composition, palaeoecological significance and importance in reef construction

    • Reinhold R. Leinfelder
    • Martin Nose
    • Winfried Werner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 229

17. Development of albian microbialites and microbialite reefs at marginal platform areas of the Vasco-Cantabrian Basin (Soba reef area, Cantabria, N. Spain)

    • Fritz Neuweiler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 249

18. Microbial origin of travertine fabrics—two examples from Southern Germany (Pleistocene stuttgart travertines and miocene riedöschingen Travertine)

    • Christoph G. Koban
    • Günter Schweigert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 263