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 …

Within carbonate sediments below tropical–subtropical oceanic surface waters,
syndepositional “chemical” dissolution of CaCO3 driven by organic matter oxidation can …

Abstract The 3-to 5-m-thick Doushantuo cap carbonate in south China overlies the
glaciogenic Nantuo Formation (ca. 635 Ma) and consists of laterally persistent, thinly …

This research report contains nine case studies (part II to X) dealing with Palaeozoic and
Mesozoic mud mounds, microbial reefs, and modern zones of active micrite production, and …

At the beginning of Late Jurassic both the Lochen (LA) and the Cracow areas (CA) were
palaeotopographic highs in an epicontinental basin located at the stable northern margin of …

The Cretaceous oceanic red bed (CORB) is a newly opened window on global oceanic and
climate changes during the Cretaceous greenhouse world. As a result of the International …

The Carboniferous, particularly during the Serpukhovian and Bashkirian time, was a period
of scarce shallow-water calcimicrobial-microbialite reef growth. Organic frameworks …

Reports of diverse vermiform and peloidal structures in Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic open
marine to peritidal carbonates include cases interpreted to be keratose sponges. However …

During the Devonian, the eastern Anti-Atlas formed a part of the northwestern continental
margin of Gondwana which was a mid-latitudinal (30-400 S), temperate-water carbonate …

The process of organomineralization is increasingly well understood with respect to modern
carbonate sediments accumulating adjacent to tropical reef atolls and reef caves …