Calcareous Algae and Stromatolites

by Robert Riding

Overview

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of calcareous algae and stromatolites. It contains reviews by leading specialists of major groups, together with accounts of floras through time. It deals with marine and non-marine, benthic and planktic, and modern as well as ancient examples. As the first multi-authored review of the field ever published in English, it is an essential reference text for this complex field. It is designed for both postgraduate researchers and professional scientists who require up-to-date and authoritative information on these long-ranging organisms and fabrics which are of wide evolutionary, environmental and sedimentary significance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642523373
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/12/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Pages:	571
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

I Introduction.- 1 Calcification Processes in Algae and Cyanobacteria.- 2 Classification of Microbial Carbonates.- II Major Groups.- 3 Calcified Cyanobacteria.- 4 The Solenoporaceae: A General Point of View.- 5 Coralline Algae: Mineralization, Taxonomy, and Palaeoecology.- 6 Cyclocrinitids.- 7 Dasycladalean Algae of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic.- 8 Cenozoic and Recent Dasycladales.- 9 Fossil Udoteaceae and Gymnocodiaceae.- 10 Recent Calcified Halimedaceae.- 11 The Genus Concept in Charophyta: Evidence from Palaeozoic to Recent.- 12 Calcification of the Charophyte Oosporangium.- 13 Calcareous Nannofossils.- 14 Fossil Calcareous Dinoflagellate Cysts.- III Algae and Stromatolites Through Time.- 15 Archaean and Proterozoic Stromatolites.- 16 Cambrian Calcareous Cyanobacteria and Algae.- 17 Ordovician Algae and Global Tectonics.- 18 Ordovician to Devonian Marine Calcareous Algae.- 19 Carboniferous Calcareous Algae.- 20 Permian Marine Calcareous Algae.- 21 Triassic and Jurassic Marine Calcareous Algae: A Critical Review.- 22 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Marine Benthic Calcareous Algae with Particular Regard to Mesozoic Dasycladaleans.- 23 Modern Stromatolites: A Review.