High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment

• Main Author: Wisshak, Max (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 109
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geology.; Structural geology.; Paleontology.; Ecology.; Life Sciences.; Structural Geology.

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 t...

Table of 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.