The history and sedimentology of ancient reef systems
By: edited by George D. Stanley, Jr
Contributors: Stanley, George D
Series: Topics in geobiology -- v. 17
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Phanerozoic reef trends based on the paleoreef database / Wolfgang Kiessling; title: Evolution, radiations, and extinctions in Proterozoic to mid-Paleozoic reefs / Paul Copper; title: Paleoecology of Cambrian reef ecosystems / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev; title: Biologically induced carbonate precipitation in reefs through time / Gregory E. Webb; title: A half century later: the Permian Guadalupian reef complex in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico / Norman D. Newell; title: Triassic reefs of the Tethys / Erik Flügel and Baba Senowbari-Daryan; title: Jurassic reef ecosystems / Reinhold R. Leinfelder; title: Cretaceous evolution of reef ecosystems: a regional synthesis of the Caribbean tropics / Claudia C. Johnson and Erle G. Kauffman; title: The role of framework in modern reefs and its application to ancient systems / Dennis K. Hubbard, Ivan P. Gill, and Randolph B. Burke; title: Coral reefs, carbonate sediments, nutrients and global change / Pamela Hallock