Joo-Sun Oh

Abstract Microscopic morphologic variations of Epiphyton thalli in microbial buildups were examined in order to detail controlling factors on morphology and calcification processes, and their implications for identification of calcified microbes. Microbial carbonate of the Zhangxia Formation (Middle Cambrian), Shandong Province, China comprises thrombolites, stromatolites, and Epiphyton buildups, as well as consortia of microbial and metazoan communities. Epiphyton, a rigid framework of the buil

Abstract Mid to late Cambrian thrombolites and maze‐like maceriate reefs from the western North China Platform, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, northwestern China, occur in the middle of a succession dominated by thin‐bedded lime mudstone‐shale/marlstone alternations, and are laterally surrounded by limestone conglomerate and/or grainstone. Thrombolite, characterized by meter‐scale lenticular mounds composed of millimeter‐ to centimeter‐scale mesoclots and wackestone matrix, occurs in the lower middle pa

Abstract Ten embedded fossil logs sampled in situ from the middle Eocene volcano‐sedimentary rocks close to Suffield Point in the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica, are assigned to Protopodocarpoxylon araucarioides Schultze‐Motel ex Vogellehner, Phyllocladoxylon antarcticum Gothan, Agathoxylon antarcticum (Poole & Cantrill) Pujana et al ., A . pseudoparenchymatosum (Gothan) Pujana et al . and an unidentified angiosperm wood. Differences in the taxonomic representation and grow

Microbial carbonate has been increasingly recognized as an important player for sediment production and building up of organosedimentary deposits. The integrated spatio‐temporal pattern of microbial facies is important for understanding carbonate production processes in a carbonate platform. This paper focuses on the sedimentary facies and development of a microbe‐dominated platform in the Cambrian North China Platform (the Zhangxia Formation of the Cambrian Series 3) in Shandong Province, China