Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution

Copyright © 1995 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Carbonate Mud-Mounds: Their Origin and Evolution

Editor(s): C. L. V. Monty, D. W. J. Bosence, P. H. Bridges, B. R. Pratt

Published Online: 14 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780865429338

Online ISBN: 9781444304114

DOI: 10.1002/9781444304114

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This is the first book to investigate the structure, origin and evolution of carbonate mud-mounds. Mud-mounds are accumulations of biogenic carbonate sediment that are common in the geological record, and economically important as they host lead zinc mineralization and oil and gas. The book reviews, for the first time, the different mechanisms 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 contains case studies of mud-mounds from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The coverage is global and truly international, with 32 authors from 10 countries.


  • The first volume to deal with the structure, formation and evolution of mud-mounds.
  • Copiously illustrated, with nine colour plates.

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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–vi)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c10)

  3. Introduction and Overviews

    1. A Review of the Origin and Evolution of Carbonate Mud-Mounds (pages 1–9)

      D. W. J. Bosence and P. H. Bridges

    2. The Rise and Nature of Carbonate Mud-Mounds: An Introductory Actualistic Approach (pages 11–48)

      C. L. V. Monty

    3. The Origin, Biota and Evolution of Deep-Water Mud-Mounds (pages 49–123)

      Brian R. Pratt

  4. Palaeozoic Mud-Mounds

    1. Shallow-Water Stromatactis Mud-Mounds on a Middle Ordovician Foreland Basin Platform, Western Newfoundland (pages 125–149)

      S. R. Stenzel and N. P. James

    2. Silurian Microbial Buildups of the Canadian Arctic (pages 151–169)

      T. A. de Freitas and O. A. Dixon

    3. Waulsortian Banks (pages 191–271)

      A. Lees and J. Miller

    4. Carbonate Mud-Mounds in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Carboniferous), Cumberland Saddle Region, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA (pages 273–287)

      D. L. Meyer, W. I. Ausich, D. T. Bohl, W. A. Norris and P. E. Potter

  5. Palaeozic Mud-Mounds

    1. The Environmental Setting of Early Carboniferous Mud-Mounds (pages 171–190)

      P. H. Bridges, P. Gutteridge and N. A. H. Pickard

    2. Late Dinantian (Brigantian) Carbonate Mud-Mounds of the Derbyshire Carbonate Platform (pages 289–307)

      P. Gutteridge

  6. Mesozic Mud-Mounds

    1. Mud-Mounds with Reefal Caps in the Upper Muschelkalk (Triassic), Eastern Spain (pages 309–333)

      F. Calvet and M. E. Tucker

    2. Initiation and Development of Small-Scale Sponge Mud-Mounds, Late Jurassic, Southern Franconian Alb, Germany (pages 335–357)

      U. Hammes

    3. Albian Carbonate Mounds: Comparative Study in the Context of Sea-Level Variations (Soba, Northern Spain) (pages 359–384)

      J. García-Mondéjar and P. A. Fernández-Mendiola

    4. Nature and Origin of Late Cretaceous Mud-Mounds, North Africa (pages 385–400)

      G. F. Camoin

  7. Mesozoic Mud-Mounds

    1. Sedimentation, Diagenesis and Syntectonic Erosion of Upper Cretaceous Rudist Mounds in Central Tunisia (pages 401–419)

      M. H. Negra, B. H. Purser and A. M'Rabet

  8. Cenozoic Mud-Mounds

    1. An Eocene Biodetrital Mud-Mound from the Southern Pyrenean Foreland Basin, Spain: An Ancient Analogue for Florida Bay Mounds? (pages 421–437)

      M. C. Taberner and D. W. J. Bosence

    2. Origin and Growth of Carbonate Banks in South Florida (pages 439–473)

      H. R. Wanless, D. J. Cottrell, M. G. Tagett, L. P. Tedesco and E. R. Warzeski

    3. Anatomy of a Recent Biodetrital Mud-Mound, Florida Bay, USA (pages 475–493)

      D. W. J. Bosence

    4. Growth and Burrow-Transformation of Carbonate Banks: Comparison of Modern Skeletal Banks of South Florida and Pennsylvanian Phylloid Banks of South-Eastern Kansas, USA (pages 495–521)

      L. P. Tedesco and H. R. Wanless

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      Index (pages 523–537)

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