072619c

Just finished revising a paper about fossil reefs and resubmitted it to the Journal of Paleontology. About 12k words, or 1/4 of a short novel.

A follow-up to this:

Haywick, D.W., Kopaska-Merkel, D.C., and Keyes, R., 2016, Petrographic and faunal characteristics of Monteagle and Hartselle-equivalent strata in northeast Alabama, GCAGS Trans. 66, p. 211-229.

and these:

Kopaska-Merkel, David C., and Haywick, Douglas W., 2014, Small carbonate buildups in the Bangor Limestone (Chesterian) in and near Alabama, in, Puckett, T. Markham, and Rindsberg, Andrew K., eds., Stratigraphy and depositional systems in the Mississippian strata of the Appalachian Plateau, northwest Alabama, A guidebook for the 51^st annual field trip, Alabama Geological Society, Tuscaloosa, p. 111-138.

Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., and Haywick, D. W., 2001, A lone biodetrital mound in the Chesterian of Alabama? Sedimentary Geology, v. 145, no. 3-4, p. 253-268. 

Microscopic "cave" in reef in Mississippian Bangor Limestone,  with stalactite-like microbial projections from roof of cavity.2.5 mm wide.