Publication Date:
2015-05-10
Description:
Extract Microbial carbonates (microbialites) are remarkable sedimentary deposits for four good reasons: 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. However, they are amongst the most intractable of sedimentary rocks to study, as, being formed by the action or influence of microbes, they do not always preserve direct, or diagenetically robust, evidence for their mode of formation. ... This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
Print ISSN:
0305-8719
Electronic ISSN:
2041-4927
Topics:
Geosciences
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