High Latitude Bioerosion The Kosterfjord Experiment

Download or read book High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment written by Max Wisshak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces of the action of mechanical and chemical boring, scraping or crushing organisms on hard substrates appear in fossil carbonates as old as the Precambrian, providing valuable palaeoenvironmental indicators. Bioerosion has been extensively studied in tropical seas, but data from cold-temperate to polar settings remain sparse. This book presents an experimental study into the pace of carbonate degradation and the chronology of boring community development along a bathymetric gradient in high-latitude settings.