Carbonate platform systems : components and interactions / edited by E. Insalaco, P. W. Skelton and T. J. Palmer

"This volume arises from the Lyell Meeting on 'Organism-environment feedbacks in carbonate platforms and reefs', which was held at the Geological Society, London, on 1-2 March 1999 ... Thirteen of the presentations are expanded here as papers"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A temperate reef builder : an evaluation of the growth morphology and composition of Sabellaria alveolata (L.) colonies on carbonate platforms in South Wales / L.A. Naylor & H.A. Viles -- Skeletal growth rates of Upper Cretaceous rudist bivalves : implications for carbonate production and organism-environment feedbacks / T. Steuber -- Spatial and temporal patterns of macroboring within Mesozoic and Cenozoic coral reef systems / C.T. Perry & M. Bertling -- Microfacies development in late Archaean stromatolites and oolites of the Ghaap Group of South Africa / D.T. Wright & W. Altermann -- Reefs and coral carpets in the northern Red Sea as models for organism-environment feedback in coral communities and its reflection in growth fabrics / B. Riegl & W.E. Piller -- Diversity, growth-forms and taphonomy : key factors controlling the fabric of coralline algal dominated shelf carbonates / J.H. Nebelsick & D. Bassi -- Factors regulating the development of elevator rudist congregations / E. Gili & P.W. Skelton -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation mass mortalities of reef corals : a model of high temperature marine extinctions? / P.W. Glynn -- Isolated carbonate platforms of Belize, Central America : sedimentary facies, late Quaternary history and controlling factors / E. Gischler & A.J. Lomando -- Reef episodes, anoxia and sea-level changes in the Frasnian of the southern Timan (NE Russian platform) / M.R. House, V.V. Menner, R.T.

Becker ... [et al.] -- Rudist lithosome development on the Maiella Carbonate Platform margin / I. Stössel & D. Bernoulli -- Fluctuations in the carbonate production of Phanerozoic reefs / W. Kiessling, E. Flügel & J. Golonka -- Sedimentation rates and growth potential of tropical, cool-water and mud-mound carbonate systems / W. Schlager.