MICROBIAL CARBONATES: A REVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES

HAN Zuozhen; CHEN Jitao; CHI Naijie; WANG Zhaopeng; YANG Renchao; FAN Aiping

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1140.2009.04029

2009 Vol. 29, No. 4

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HAN Zuozhen, CHEN Jitao, CHI Naijie, WANG Zhaopeng, YANG Renchao, FAN Aiping. MICROBIAL CARBONATES: A REVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2009, 29(4): 29-38. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2009.04029

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HAN Zuozhen, CHEN Jitao, CHI Naijie, WANG Zhaopeng, YANG Renchao, FAN Aiping. MICROBIAL CARBONATES: A REVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2009, 29(4): 29-38. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2009.04029

MICROBIAL CARBONATES: A REVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES

College of Geoscience and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266510, China

Received Date: 30 May 2009

Revised Date: 10 June 2009

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The authors reviewed and summarized the historical and current status and the perspectives of the study on microbial carbonates based on the previous researches. Microbial carbonates were formed by calcified microbes (e.g.cyanobacteria, microalgae, etc.) under the combination of microbial processes, sedimentary processes, and diagenetic processes. Microbial carbonates consist of a variety of types, including stromatolites, thrombolites, dendrolites, leiolites, oncolites, and laminites. Microbial carbonates developed in all geological time, with its great abundance in Meso-Neoproterozoic, showing general declining trend in the Phanerozoic. In addition, microbes play an important role in the formation of primary dolomite, carbonate mud mounds, and the fifth primary sedimentary structures. Recently, the development of the research on microbial carbonates supplements and completes the genesis and classification of carbonates.
- microbial carbonates /
- cyanobacteria /
- microbial dolomite /
- carbonate mud mounds /
- review and perspective

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