The history and sedimentology of ancient reef systems /
From the Preface: The chapters of this book contain contributions from an international group of specialists. They address some important themes in both modern and ancient reef systems. Some chapters contain `snapshots' of reefs of particular intervals, while others touch on relevant themes of...
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum,
[2001]
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| Series: | Topics in geobiology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Phanerozoic reef trends based on the paleoreef database / Wolfgang Kiessling
- Evolution, radiations, and extinctions in Proterozoic to mid-Paleozoic reefs / Paul Copper
- Paleoecology of Cambrian reef ecosystems / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
- Biologically induced carbonate precipitation in reefs through time / Gregory E. Webb
- A half century later: the Permian Guadalupian reef complex in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico / Norman D. Newell
- Triassic reefs of the Tethys / Erik Flügel and Baba Senowbari-Daryan
- Jurassic reef ecosystems / Reinhold R. Leinfelder
- Cretaceous evolution of reef ecosystems: a regional synthesis of the Caribbean tropics / Claudia C. Johnson and Erle G. Kauffman
- The role of framework in modern reefs and its application to ancient systems / Dennis K. Hubbard, Ivan P. Gill, and Randolph B. Burke
- Coral reefs, carbonate sediments, nutrients and global change / Pamela Hallock.