We describe a small microbial reef and associated limestones occurring in a Maastrichtian transgressive succession of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic lithologies at Sierra Huantraico near Chos Malal (Neuquén, Argentina). Strontium isotope data suggest that the reef is of earliest Maastrichtian age. The small reef (0.8 m thick, 2 m wide) is mostly composed of peloidal bindstone, dense stromatolite-cement crusts and thrombolite. Except for some ostracods, no metazoan fossils were found in the reef structure, although the majority of peloids are fecal pellets, probably of larger crustaceans. Small foraminifers with calcite tests and probable green algae have also been noted. Sedimentological data and fossils within and immediately above the reef...
Coral reefs represent one of the main carbonate factories that contributed to the control of the str...
Upper Maastrichtian to lower Paleocene, coarse-grained deposits of the Lefipán Formation in Chubut P...
The influence of microbial activity in carbonatic environments leading to stromatolite build-ups is ...
The Neuquén back-arc basin is located on the west margin of the South American platform between lati...
During the Middle Oxfordian, the epicontinental shelf of the Neuquén Basin was a site of major coral...
A coral biostrome from the lower Hauterivian of the Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina, was exami...
Microbial fabrics (stromatolites, thrombolites and calcimicrobes) occur in many Paleozoic carbonate ...
This work concerns with the detailed geological and paleontological study of the reef facies of the ...
International audienceMiddle to Upper Oxfordian reefs of a shallow marine carbonate platform located...
Although skeletal organisms have received most of the emphasis in studies on Phanerozoic reef histor...
International audienceVery large amount of microbialites, up to 70% of the reef volume takes part in...
A massive occurrence of microbial carbonates, including abundant sponge remains, within the Devonian...
Throughout most of the Phanerozoic, reef rigidity resulted as much, or more, from early lithificatio...
Morphological and geochemical comparisons between modern cryptic microbialites from Lizard Island/G...
This study focuses on living and fossil freshwater microbialites and their potential as proxy for pa...
Coral reefs represent one of the main carbonate factories that contributed to the control of the str...
Upper Maastrichtian to lower Paleocene, coarse-grained deposits of the Lefipán Formation in Chubut P...
The influence of microbial activity in carbonatic environments leading to stromatolite build-ups is ...
The Neuquén back-arc basin is located on the west margin of the South American platform between lati...
During the Middle Oxfordian, the epicontinental shelf of the Neuquén Basin was a site of major coral...
A coral biostrome from the lower Hauterivian of the Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina, was exami...
Microbial fabrics (stromatolites, thrombolites and calcimicrobes) occur in many Paleozoic carbonate ...
This work concerns with the detailed geological and paleontological study of the reef facies of the ...
International audienceMiddle to Upper Oxfordian reefs of a shallow marine carbonate platform located...
Although skeletal organisms have received most of the emphasis in studies on Phanerozoic reef histor...
International audienceVery large amount of microbialites, up to 70% of the reef volume takes part in...
A massive occurrence of microbial carbonates, including abundant sponge remains, within the Devonian...
Throughout most of the Phanerozoic, reef rigidity resulted as much, or more, from early lithificatio...
Morphological and geochemical comparisons between modern cryptic microbialites from Lizard Island/G...
This study focuses on living and fossil freshwater microbialites and their potential as proxy for pa...
Coral reefs represent one of the main carbonate factories that contributed to the control of the str...
Upper Maastrichtian to lower Paleocene, coarse-grained deposits of the Lefipán Formation in Chubut P...
The influence of microbial activity in carbonatic environments leading to stromatolite build-ups is ...