Carbonate Mud-Mounds Their Origin and

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. The first volume to deal with the structure, formation and evolution of mud-mounds. Copiously illustrated, with nine colour plates.If you are a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see: http://www.iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP23

C. L. V. Monty and D. W. J. Bosence are the authors of Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution, published by Wiley.

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
Late Dinantian (Brigantian) carbonate mud-mounds of the Derbyshire carbonate platform
Mesozoic Mud-Mounds
Mud-mounds with reefal caps in the upper Muschelkalk (Triassic), eastern Spain
Initiation and development of small-scale sponge mud-mounds, Late Jurassic, Southern Franconian Alb, Germany
Albian carbonate mounds: comparative study in the context of sea-level variations (Soba, northern Spain)
Nature and origin of late Cretaceous mud-mounds, North Africa
Sedimentation, diagenesis and syntectonic erosion of Upper Cretaceous rudist mounds in central Tunisia
Cenozoic Mud-Mounds
An 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 Florida
Anatomy of a Recent biodetrital mud-mound, Florida Bay, USA
Growth and burrow-transformation of carbonate banks: comparison of modern skeletal banks of south Florida and Pennsylvanian phylloid banks of south-eastern Kansas, USA
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