Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time: Implications for Global Exploration and Production
Product code: SP418
Print publication date: 18/08/2015
Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862397279
Author/Edited by: Edited by D.W.J. Bosence, K.A. Gibbons, D.P. Le Heron, W.A. Morgan, T. Pritchard and B.A. Vining
Weight: 0.92kg
Number of pages: 308
Online publication date: 02/07/2015
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/418/1
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Product Code: SP418
Edited by D.W.J. Bosence, K.A. Gibbons, D.P. Le Heron, W.A. Morgan, T. Pritchard and B.A. Vining
Special Publication 418
Microbial carbonates (microbialites) are remarkable sedimentary deposits because they have the longest geological range of any type of biogenic limestones, they form in the greatest range of different sedimentary environments, they oxygenated the Earth’s atmosphere, and they produce and store large volumes of hydrocarbons.
This Special Publication provides significant contributions at a pivotal time in our understanding of microbial carbonates, when their economic importance has become established and the results of many research programmes are coming to fruition.
It is the first book to focus on the economic aspects of microbialites and in particular the giant pre-salt discoveries offshore Brazil. In addition it contains papers on the processes involved in formation of both modern and ancient microbialites and the diversity of style in microbial carbonate buildups, structures and fabrics in both marine and non-marine settings and throughout the geological record.
Published online 03/07/2015. Print copies available from 20/08/2015. http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/418/1
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Introduction
Bosence, D., Gibbons, K., Le Heron, D. P., Morgan, W. A., Pritchard, T. & Vining, B. A. Microbial carbonates in space and time: introduction.
Della Porta, G. Carbonate build-ups in lacustrine, hydrothermal and fluvial settings: comparing depositional geometry, fabric types and geochemical signature.
Corbett, P. & Borghi, L. Microbial carbonates: a sampling and measurement challenge for petrophysics addressed by capturing the Q1 bioarchitectural components.
Neoproterozoic
Winterleitner, G., Le Heron, D. P., Mapani, B., Vining, B. A. & McCaffery, K. J. W. Styles, origins and implications of syndepositional deformation structures in Ediacaran microbial carbonates (Nama Basin, Namibia).
Le Ber, E., Le Heron, & Oxtoby, N. H. Influence of microbial framework on Cryogenian microbial facies, Rasthof Formation, Namibia.
Mettraux, M., Homewood, P., Dos Anjos, C., Erthal, M., Lima, R., Matsuda, N., Souza, A. & Al Balushi, S. Microbial communities and their primary to early diagenetic mineral phases; the record from Neoproterozoic microbialites of Qarn Alam, Oman.
Mesozoic
Aurell, M. & Bádenas, B. Facies architecture of a microbial–siliceous sponge-dominated carbonate platform: the Bajocian of Moscardón (Middle Jurassic, Spain).
Buckley, J. P., Bosence, D. & Elders, C. Tectonic setting and stratigraphic architecture of an Early Cretaceous lacustrine carbonate platform, Sugar Loaf High, Santos Basin, Brazil.
Rezende, M. F. & Pope, M. C. Importance of depositional texture in pore characterization of subsalt microbialite carbonates, offshore Brazil.
Wright, V. P. & Barnett, A. J. An abiotic model for the development of textures in some South Atlantic early Cretaceous lacustrine carbonates.
Muniz, M. C. & Bosence, D. W. J. Pre-salt microbialites from the Campos Basin (offshore Brazil): image log facies, facies model and cyclicity in lacustrine carbonates.
Cenozoic
Bahniuk, A., McKEnzie, J. A., Perri, E., Bontognali, T. R. R., Vögeli, N., Rezende, C. E., Rangel, T. P. & Vasconcelos, C. Characterization of environmental conditions during microbial Mg-carbonate precipitation and early diagenetic dolomite crust formation: Brejo do Espinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Chidsey Jr, T. C., Vanden Berg, M. D. & Eby, D. E. Petrography and characterization of microbial carbonates and associated facies from modern Great Salt Lake and Uinta Basin’s Eocene Green River Formation in Utah, USA.
Warthmann, R. J., Camoin, G., McKenzie, J. A. & Vasconcelos, C. Geomicrobiology of carbonate microbialites in the Tahiti reef.
