INSALACO, E., SKELTON, P. W. & PALMER, T. J. (eds) 2000. Carbonate Platform Systems: Components and Interactions. Geological Society Special Publication no. 178. 231 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £60.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 074 6. Geol. Mag. 139, 2002, DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802276517
| Autor: | Paul Wright |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Geological Magazine. 139 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5081 0016-7568 |
| Popis: | A look through recent books on carbonate deposits might give the impression that the only way to study limestones is to identify sequence boundaries and parasequences. Luckily the contributors to this book are not such stratigraphic ‘fundamentalists’, and the reality, of course, is that limestones are largely composed of the remains of calcareous plants and animals. This compilation, which arose from the 1999 Lyell Meeting held in London, convincingly reminds us that we must strive to understand the biological, or palaeobiological, aspects if we really want to interpret ancient carbonate systems, rather than constrain complexity into a narrow, prescriptive set of sequence stratigraphic diktats. There, that has nailed my flag to the mast; I think that we have a profoundly inadequate understanding of the biological processes that filter and script the geological history of carbonate systems, so I welcome this volume unreservedly. The book contains 13 papers covering such diverse topics as modern polychaetes, the amazing rudists, bioerosion in reefs, Precambrian microbialites, Red Sea corals, fossil algae and mud mounds. The papers fall into two parts: seven papers focus on studies at the community level, and six that tackle larger scale aspects. The international authorship, from 10 countries, covers a very wide range of stratigraphic intervals and regions. The editors provide … |
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