GEOL 462: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Reading assignments for Lecture 22, Thursday, April 16, 2009: The dolomite problem
1. Baker, P.A. and Kastner, M., 1981. Constraints on the formation of sedimentary dolomite. Science, 213(4504): 215-216. PDF
2. Lumsden, D.N., and Lloyd, R.V., 1997, Three dolomites: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 391-396. PDF
3. Moore, T.S., Murray, R.W., Kurtz, A.C., and Schrag, D.P., 2004, Anaerobic methane oxidation and the formation of dolomite: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 229, p. 141-154. PDF
4. Perri, E., and Tucker, M., 2007, Bacterial fossils and microbial dolomite in Triassic stromatolites: Geology, p. 207-210. PDF
5. Adelaide Mastandrea, E.P.F.R.A.S.M.T., 2006, Microbial primary dolomite from a Norian carbonate platform: northern Calabria, southern Italy: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 465-480. PDF