Carbonate mud-mounds
Subtitle: their origin and evolution
By: edited by C.L.V. Monty ... [et al.].
Contributors: Monty, Claude, 1937-
Series: Special publication no. 23 of the International Association of Sedimentologists; Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ;; no. 23.
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
Subjects: Mud mounds -- Congresses.
Description: Mud-mounds are build-ups of biogenic carbonate sediment and are economically important as hosts of lead-zinc mineralization as well as oil and gas deposits.

This is the first book to investigate the structure, origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds. It reviews the different mechanisms, principally microbial and detrital, of mud-mound formation; and examines in detail the major changes in mud-mound type and occurrence through geological time. The major part of the book, written by an international team of authors, contains case studies of mud-mounds from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic drawn from around the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on proceedings of a meeting held in Louvain, Belgium, in 1988.