Microbially induced sedimentary structures indicating climatological, Hydrological and depositional conditions within recent and pleistocene coastal facies zones (Southern Tunisia)

摘要

Extensive tidal areas of the Recent coast of southern Tunisia are overgrown by microbial mats. Different mat types of which each are dominated by distinct and well adapted cyanobacterial species develop. Ecological response of the mat-forming microorganisms to climatological hydrological and sedimentological factors produce characteristic sedimentary structures (=microbially induced sedimentary structures).