Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record, Volume 2

325 Pages·2007·79.905 MB·English

by  Juergen Schieber, Pradip K. Bose, P.G. Eriksson, Santanu Banerjee, Subir Sarkar, Wladyslaw Altermann, Octavian Catuneanu

ATLASESINGEOSCIENCE,2
Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within
the Siliciclastic Rock Record
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ATLASESINGEOSCIENCE,2
Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within
the Siliciclastic Rock Record
Edited by Juergen Schieber, Pradip K. Bose,
Patrick G. Eriksson, Santanu Banerjee, Subir Sarkar,
Wladyslaw Altermann and Octavian Catuneanu
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List of Editors
N.B. Note that the order of the editors for the book is as follows (the list below is alphabetically arranged for
convenience):JuergenSchieber,PradipK.Bose,PatrickG.Eriksson,SantanuBanerjee,SubirSarkar,Wladyslaw
AltermannandOctavianCatuneanu.
Wladyslaw Altermann, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geology and GeoBioCenterLMU,
Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich,Luisenstrasse37,D-80333Munich,Germany;tel.:[phone];
fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Santanu Banerjee, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India; tel.: +91 22
25768282;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Pradip K. Bose, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India; tel.: +91 33
24146366;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
OctavianCatuneanu,DepartmentofEarthandAtmosphericSciences,UniversityofAlberta,1-26EarthSciences
Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3; tel.: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: octavian@
ualberta.ca
Patrick G. Eriksson, Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; tel.: +27 12
4202238;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Subir Sarkar, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India; tel.: +91 33
24146366;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Juergen Schieber, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; tel.:
[phone](lab),[phone](office);fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
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List of Authors
Wladyslaw Altermann, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geology and GeoBioCenterLMU,
Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich,Luisenstrasse37,D-80333Munich,Germany;tel.:[phone];
fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Santanu Banerjee, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India; tel.: +91 22
25768282;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
KevinM.Bohacs,ExxonMobilUpstreamResearchCompany,3120BuffaloSpeedway,Houston,TX77096,USA;
tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
ElHafidBouougri,DepartmentofGeology,FacultyofSciencesSemlalia,Cadi-AyyadUniversity,P.O.Box2390,
Marrakech40000,Morocco;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Pradip K. Bose, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India; tel.: +91 33
24146366;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
DavidJ.Bottjer,DepartmentofEarthSciences,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,3651TrousdaleParkway,Los
Angeles,CA90089-0740,USA;tel.:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Adam J. Bumby, Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; tel.: +27 12
4203316;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
OctavianCatuneanu,DepartmentofEarthandAtmosphericSciences,UniversityofAlberta,1-26EarthSciences
Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3; tel.: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: octavian@
ualberta.ca
SnehasisChakraborty,DepartmentofGeologicalSciences,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata-700032,India;tel.:+91
3324146366;fax:[phone]
AsruK.Chaudhuri,DepartmentofGeologicalSciences,IndianStatisticalInstitute,Kolkata-700108,India;fax:
[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
JeffreyR.Chiarenzelli,DepartmentofGeology,St.LawrenceUniversity,147BrownHall,Canton,NY13617,
USA;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
JohnAllanDonaldson,Ottawa–CarletonGeoscienceCentre,CarletonUniversity,ColonelByDrive,Ottawa,ON
K1S5B6,Canada;tel.:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
StephenQ.Dornbos,DepartmentofGeosciences,LaphamHall,UniversityofWisconsin–Milwaukee,P.O.Box
413,Milwaukee,WI53201,USA;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Patrick G. Eriksson, Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; tel.: +27 12
4202238;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
GiselaGerdes,SenckenbergResearchInstitute,DepartmentofMarineScience,postaladdress:ResearchCentre
Terramare,Schleusenstrasse1,D-26382Wilhelmshaven,Germany;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];
e-mail:[email protected]
J. Ghergut, Department of Applied Geology, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen, Universität Göttin-
gen, Goldschmidtstrasse 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; tel.: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail:
[email protected]
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MihaelaGlamoclija,DepartmentofGeologicalSciences,IndianaUniversity,1001East10thStreet,Bloomington,
IN47405,USA;e-mail:[email protected]
JamesW.Hagadorn,DepartmentofGeology,AmherstCollege,Amherst,MA01002,USA;tel.:[phone];
fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Christopher K. Junium, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801,
USA
NoraNoffke,OldDominionUniversity,Ocean,Earth&AtmosphericSciences,4600ElkhornAvenue,Norfolk,
VA23529,USA;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
SarbaniPatranabis-Deb,DepartmentofGeologicalSciences,IndianStatisticalInstitute,Kolkata-700108,India;
tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
HubertusPorada,DepartmentofAppliedGeology,GeowissenschaftlichesZentrumGöttingen,UniversitätGöt-
tingen,Goldschmidtstrasse3,D-37077Göttingen,Germany;tel.:[phone];fax:[phone];e-mail:
[email protected]
Subir Sarkar, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India; tel.: +91 33
24146366;fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Juergen Schieber, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; tel.:
[phone](lab),[phone](office);fax:[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Sohini Sur, School of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA; tel.:
[phone];e-mail:[email protected]
Acknowledgements
OctavianCatuneanuacknowledgesresearchsupportfromtheNaturalSciencesandEngineeringResearchCoun-
cilofCanada(NSERC)andtheUniversityofAlberta.GiselaGerdeswishestothankthefollowingcolleaguesand
institutesforhelpindigitisingphotographs:RolfKiene,NiedersächsischesLandesinstitutfürhistorischeKüsten-
forschungWilhelmshaven;FritzRiedinger,JensKahle,ResearchCentreTerramare,Wilhelmshaven.Platefigures
are in part from projects supported financially by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): grant GE 64/1,
GE 64/6-1, Kr 333/22-1, 2. Santanu Banerjee acknowledges IIT Bombay and the Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India, for research support. Subir Sarkar and Pradip Bose acknowledge financial
helpfromtheDepartmentofScienceandTechnology,GovernmentofIndia,andfromJadavpurUniversity,Kolkata.
PatErikssonthankstheUniversityofPretoriaforfinancialsupport,Mrs.M.deSwardtforlogisticalhelpandMrs.
M. Geringer for her considerable assistance with images. Pat Eriksson and Adam Bumby thank Igor Tonzetic
for his very valuable help during fieldwork in the Waterberg Group, South Africa and for his photographic ex-
pertise.JuergenSchieberacknowledgessupportfromarangeoforganisationsthatsponsoredresearchinvolving
microbialmatsinterrigenousclastics.TheseorganisationsincludetheNationalScienceFoundation(grantsEAR-
9117701, EAR-9706178, EAR-0073995, EAR-0318769, EAR-0308921), the Petroleum Research Fund (grants
25134-AC2, 33941-AC8, 38523-AC8), NASA (EXB04-0017-0111), Anaconda Minerals Co., Exxon Production
ResearchLabs.,andChevronTexaco.
The following referees are acknowledged for their contributions: Patrick G. Eriksson (Univ. of Pretoria, South
Africa), Gisela Gerdes (Senckenberg Research Institute, Wilhelmshaven, Germany), Juergen Schieber (Indiana
Univ., Bloomington, USA), Juergen Schneider (Göttingen Univ., Germany) and Bruce Simonson (Oberlin Col-
lege,USA).Editingdutiesweredistributedamongstthechaptersasfollows:JuergenSchieberandPatrickEriks-
son (Chapters 1, 9 and 10), Wladyslaw Altermann (Chapter 2), Juergen Schieber (Chapters 3 and 7), Octavian
Catuneanu(Chapter4),PatrickEriksson(Chapter5),SubirSarkar(Chapter6),SantanuBanerjee(Chapter8and
referencelist).
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