Precambrian stromatolites have received in depth, consideration from geologists and paleontologists; they were indeed searching for biosedimentary structures that were sufficiently characteristic and widely distributed to be considered as useful tools for stratigraphic correlation. Silicified stromatolites are also of interest as they contain preserved traces of ancient life. Calcareous Phanerozoic stromatolites have not received very much attention from geologists. Logan's too schematic morphological classification of 1964, was not so helpful to the knowledge of Phanerozoic stromatolites because neither their morphology nor their microstructure were studied in the same detail in which Proterozoic stromatolites have now been described. We therefore know little about the Phanerozoic stromatolites which, do, however, show an interesting range of diversification. A major questions stiII remaining to be answered include the history of stromatolite development and wether their morphology has "evolved" in addition to detailed information concerning Cenozoic nonmarine stromatolites which precipitate carbonate and the Recent giant stromatolites which trap particles. For these reasons Claude Monty, in 1981, launched the first volume of what was going to be a series on "Phanerozoic stromatolites" in order to describe their morphology, microstructure and paleoecology and to present them in their stratigraphic context.

InhaltsangabePreface. Part I: Modern Stromatolites from Freshwater and Marine Environments. The Modern Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia; L.S. Moore, R.V. Burne. Bacterially Controlled Calcification of Freshwater Schizothrix-Stromatolites: an Example from the Pieniny Mountains, Southern Poland; J. Szulc, B. Smyk. Stromatolitic Mats in Antarctic Lakes; R.A. Wharton Jr. Recent Freshwater Lacustrine Stromatolites, Stromatolitic Mats and Oncoids from Northeastern Mexico; B.M. Winsborough, J.-S. Seeler, S. Golubic, R.L. Folk, B. Maguire. Peritidal Potential Stromatolites -- a Synopsis; G. Gerdes, W. Krumbein. Stromatolite and Serpulid Bioherms in a Holocene Restricted Lagoon (Sabkha El Melah, Southeastern Tunisia; E. Davaud, A. Strasser, Y. Jedoui. Part II: Cenozoic Stromatolites in Lakes and Marine Stromatolitic Phosphorites. Microstructures in Tertiary Nonmarine Stromatolites (France). Comparison with Proterozoic Stromatolite; J. Bertrand-Sarfati, P. Freytet, J.C. Plaziat. Stromatolites from the East African Rift -- a Synopsis; J. Casanova. Lacustrine Stromatolites and Oncoids: Manuherikia Group (Miocene), New Zealand; J. Lindqvist. Stromatolitic Phosphorites in the Eocene Marine of the Negev (Southern Israel); D. Soudry, G. Panczer. Part III: Mesozoic Deep Marine Stromatolites and Bacterial Marine Phosphorites. Amino Acids in the Pelagic Stromatolites of the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic, Southern Alps, Italy); L. Ballarini, F. Massari, S. Nardi, L. Scudeler-Bacelle. Deep Marine Microbial Structures in the Upper Jurassic of Western Thethys; G. Dromart, C. Gaillard, L.F. Jansa. Mesozoic Stratigraphic Breaks and Pelagic Stromatolites in the Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain; J.A. Vera, M. Martin-Algarra. Mesozoic Pelagic Phosphate Stromatolites from the Penibetic (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain); A. Martin-Algarra, J.A. Vera. Part IV: Paleozoic Stromatolites and Thrombolites. Siliciclastic Carbonate Stromatolite Domes, in the Early Carboniferous of the Ajjers Basin (Eastern Sahara, Algeria); J.B. Bertrand-Sarfati. Thrombolitic-Stromatolitic Cycles of the Cambro-Ordovician Boundary Sequence, Precordillera Oriental Basin, Western Argentina; C. Armella. Thrombolites and Stromatolites within Shale-Carbonate Cycles, Middle-Late Cambrian Shannon Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia; J.M. Kennard.

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