Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution [Paperback]

This is the first book to investigate the structure, origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds. Mud-mounds are accumulations of biogenic carbonate sediment that are common in the geological record, and economically important as they host lead zinc mineralization and oil and gas. The book reviews, for the first time, the different mechanisms 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 contains case studies of mud-mounds from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The coverage is global and truly international, with 32 authors from 10 countries.

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• The first volume to deal with the structure, formation and evolution of mud-mounds.
  
• Copiously illustrated, with nine colour plates.

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Introduction and Overviews.

A review of the origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds.

The rise and nature of carbonate mud-mounds: an introductory actualistic approach.

The origin, biota and evolution of deep-water mud-mounds.

Palaeozoic Mud-Mounds.

Shallow water stromatactis mud-mounds on a middle Ordovician foreland basin platform, western Newfoundland.

Silurian microbial build-ups of the Canadian Arctic.

The environmental setting of Early Carboniferous mud-mounds.

Waulsortian banks.

Carbonate mud-mounds in the Fort Payne Formation (lower Carboniferous), Cumberland Saddle region, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA.

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