Defined here as 'essentially in place calcareous deposits created by sessile organisms',
Organic Reefs are diverse and complex structures with a long geological history. Their …

A significant body of new information about the development of coral reefs during the last 23
ka has been generated in the last three decades. In the Indo-Pacific province, structures …

Deposits produced by microbial growth and metabolism have been important components of
carbonate sediments since the Archaean. Geologically best known in seas and lakes …

Marine authigenic carbonates form shallow-water microbialites, mud mounds, and
hydrocarbon-seep deposits and contain appreciable amounts of trace elements that yield …

The Nature of Stromatolites: 3,500 Million Years of History and a Century of Research |
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Jurassic reef patterns reflect the fulminant global and regional changes initiated by the
breakup of northern Pangea. The pattern of reef distribution across the Jurassic reflects a …

Upper Jurassic reefs contain variable amounts of calcareous microbial crusts. In examples
from Portugal, Spain and southern Germany they occur within coral biostromes and …

A literature review regarding reef rubble (defined as mechanically or chemically abraded
parts of framebuilders or reef rock larger than sand fraction) and its binding agents is …

Abstract The Messinian (Late Miocene) marine stratigraphic record of the Sorbas Basin (SE
Spain) is well preserved and can be considered as being representative of the entire …

Throughout most of the Phanerozoic, reef rigidity resulted as much, or more, from early
lithification by microbial carbonates and biologically induced cements (non‐enzymatic …