Paleoalgology: Contemporary Research and Applications

ISBN-13: 9783642703577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 378 str.

D. F. Toomey; M. H. Nitecki

Opis

Prior to the 3rd International Symposium on Fossil Algae, held in Golden, Colorado in August of 1983, a 3-day fieldtrip concentrating on Recent algal distribution in southern Florida was led by Robert N. Ginsburg and his associates from Miami. A post-symosium fieldtrip to the West Texas-southern New Mexico region was led by Don Toomey and Jack Babcock. This fieldtrip examined Precambrian and Paleozoic algal carbonates in a region characterized by superb outcrop exposures, and included the famous Permian Reef complex. The Toomey-Babcock fieldtrip resulted in a unique fieldguide published by the Colorado School of Mines (1983), and issued to all participants of the symposium. The symposium itself was held from August 15 through Augsut 17 on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines where Professor J. Harlan Johnson, to whose memory this volume is dedicated, spent so much of his career studying fossil algae. The symposium sessions were held for 3 days, and during that time 40 papers were presented and discussed. A I-day fieldtrip, led by John L. Wray, to examine Late Paleozoic phylloid algal carbonates exposed in the nearby Rocky Mountains, concluded the formal meetings.

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1 J. Harlan Johnson (1892–1974), Father of American Paleoalgology.- 2 Paleoalgology.- Stromatolites and Precambrian Algae.- 3 Precambrian Carbonaceous Megafossils.- 4 Stromatolites of the Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Glacier National Park, Montana: a Summary and a Comment on the Relationship Between Their Morphology and Paleoenvironment.- 5 A Stromatolite Built by a Phormidium-Like Alga from the Lower Carboniferous of South Wales.- Systematics and Morphology.- 6 Morphological Groups and Series in Cambrian Calcareous Algae.- 7 Late Ordovician Dasyclad Algae of the Eastern Great Basin.- 8 Masloviporidium, a Cosmopolitan Middle Carboniferous Red Alga.- 9 Carboniferous Algae from the Peratrovich Formation, Southeastern Alaska.- 10 Review of Tethyan Mesozoic Algae of Romania.- 11 Key for Specific Determinations of Cretaceous Archaeolithothamnium.- Reefs, Buildups and Other Frameworks.- 12 Devonian Reef-Associated Articulate Red Algae from Western Canada.- 13 Lower Permian Phylloid Algal Mounds, Southern Tatum Basin, Southeastern New Mexico, U.S.A..- 14 Sedimentation of an Upper Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Phylloid Algal Mound Complex, Hueco Mountains, El Paso Country, West Texas.- 15 Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) Archaeolithoporella-Tubiphytes-Sponge Boundstones from the Subsurface of West Texas.- 16 The “Coralligène” of the Mediterranean – a Recent Analog for Tertiary Coralline Algal Limestones.- 17 Ecological Succession from Corals to Coralline Algae in Eocene Patch Reefs, Northern Spain.- 18 Depth Zonation and Growth Form of Crustose Coralline Algae: Flower Garden Banks, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico.- Calcification, Microstructure and Growth.- 19 Occurrence and Preservation of Eocene Squamariacean and Coralline Rhodoliths: Eua, Tonga.- 20 Growth Rate and Carbonate Production in Halimeda opuntia: Marquesas Keys, Florida.- 21 Calcification in Fossil Neomereae (Dasycladales).- Algae and Sediments.- 22 Origin of Stromatactis – a Replacement of Colonial Microbial Accretions.- 23 Algal-Bacterial Origin of Micrites in Mud Mounds.- 24 Paleodepositional Setting of Rhodoliths from the Upper Pennsylvanian (Virgil) Salem School Limestone of Northcentral Texas.- 25 Taxonomic Survey of Lower Permian Algae from the Southern Tatum Basin, Southeastern New Mexico, U.S.A..- 26 Dasyclad Algae Within Permian (Leonard) Cyclic Shelf Carbonates (“Abo”), Northern Midland Basin, West Texas.- 27 Algal Marsh Deposits from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal.- Diversity and Evolution.- 28 Diversity and Environments of Permian and Triassic Dasycladacean Algae.- 29 Adaptations of Crustose Coralline Algae to Herbivory: Patterns in Space and Time.- Index of Generic and Species Names.