Abstract The global Hangenberg Crisis near the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary (DCB)
represents a mass extinction that is of the same scale as the so-called 'Big Five'first-order …

Biotic activities are involved in almost all sedimentation processes throughout the
evolutionary history of life on our planet. However, deep-time organism-induced …

Abstract Abiotic, Bioinduced and Biocontrolled carbonates are process-based sediment
categories. They successively reflect increasing levels of biotic control over carbonate …

The Carboniferous period lasted about 60 Myr, from~ 358.9 Ma to~ 298.9 Ma. According to
the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Carboniferous System is subdivided into …

Reefs are an excellent tool for tracking marine-ecosystem changes, especially through mass
extinction transitions. Although metazoan reefs proliferated during the Phanerozoic …

The interactions between sea-level changes, local and global tectonics, and palaeoclimates
have influenced the sedimentary deposition and the stratigraphy of the Belgian Dinantian …

Microbialites are microbial sedimentary structures that constitute some of the oldest traces of
life on Earth. By their deposition in a wide range of sedimentary environments and their …

The Tournaisian and Viséan were formerly considered as series and in Belgium were
divided into two (Hastarian and Ivorian) and three stages (Moliniacian, Livian and …

Microbial carbonates commonly flourished following mass extinction events. The end-
Devonian (Hangenberg) mass extinction event is a first-order mass extinction on the scale of …

Back-reef and lagoonal communities played an important role in the construction of global
reef ecosystems and shallow water carbonate factories during the Devonian Period, but their …