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Author Wisshak, Max

Title High-latitude bioerosion : the Kosterfjord experiment : with 48 figures, 3 in colour / Max Wisshak
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Lecture notes in earth sciences, 0930-0317 ; 109
Lecture notes in earth sciences ; 109. 0930-0317
Contents Material and methods -- The Kosterfjord study site -- Bioerosion patterns -- Carbonate accretion patterns -- Quantitative bioerosion and carbonate accretion -- Ecological and palaeoenvironmental implications -- Summary and conclusions -- Outlook
Summary Bioerosion is the major force driving the degradation of marine skeletal carbonates and limestone coasts. A wide spectrum of mechanical and/or chemical boring, scraping or crushing organisms break down calcereous substrates, comprising various grazers, macroborers and especially microborers. Their traces on and within hard substrates are known from fossil carbonates as old as the Precambrian and serve as valuable palaeoenvironmental indicators. Bioerosion processes have been extensively studied in tropical seas, while corrsponding investigations from cold-temperate to polar settings remain sparse. For the first time, an experimental study yields insight into the pace of carbonate degradation and the chronology of boring community development along a bathymetric gradient in a high-latitude setting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Coastal ecology -- Cold regions
Erosion -- Cold regions
Diagenesis -- Cold regions
Marine borers -- Cold regions
Carbonate rocks -- Cold regions
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
NATURE -- Ecology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Erosion -- Cold regions.
Diagenesis -- Cold regions.
Marine borers -- Cold regions.
Rocks, Carbonate -- Cold regions.
Coastal ecology -- Cold regions.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Carbonate rocks
Coastal ecology
Diagenesis
Erosion
Marine borers
Cold regions
Form Electronic book
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