Microbial deposits in the aftermath of the end‐Permian mass extinction: A diverging case from the Mineral Mountains (Utah, <scp>USA</scp>)

Vennin, Emmanuelle; Olivier, Nicolas; Brayard, Arnaud; Bour, Ivan; Thomazo, Christophe; Escarguel, Gilles; Fara, Emmanuel; G. Bylund, Kevin; F. Jenks, James; A. Stephen, Daniel; Hofmann, Richard

doi:10.1111/sed.12166

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Microbial deposits in the aftermath of the end‐Permian mass extinction: A diverging case from the Mineral Mountains (Utah, USA)

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Authors:

Emmanuelle Vennin

Nicolas Olivier

Arnaud Brayard

Abstract

Abstract The Lower Triassic Mineral Mountains area (Utah, USA ) preserves diversified Smithian and Spathian reefs and bioaccumulations that contain fenestral‐microbialites and various benthic and pelagic organisms. Ecological and environmental changes during the Early Triassic are commonly assumed t...

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Geology

Sedimentary depositional environment

Reef

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