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Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution (Special Publication Number 23 of the International Association of Sedimentologists)
C. L. V. Monty (Editor), D. W. J. Bosence (Editor), P. H. Bridges (Editor), B. R. Pratt (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-86542-933-8
Paperback
544 pages
September 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

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.

Index