High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment
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High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)
High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)
By Max Wisshak
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 202
Publication Date: 2006-09-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540368485
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540368489
Binding: Hardcover
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.
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