Microbial mats implicated in the generation of intrastratal shrinkage ('synaeresis') cracks

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Harazim, Dario, Callow, Richard H.T., Mcilroy, Duncan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: Bioturbation; Microbial mat; Organic matter; Shrinkage crack; Synaeresis; Bell Island; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/1282; https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12044

Intrastratal shrinkage (often termed 'synaeresis') cracks are commonly employed as diagnostic environmental indicators for ancient salinity-stressed, transitional fluvial-marine or marginal-marine depositional environments. Despite their abundance and use in facies interpretations, the mec...