The Natural History of Ooliths: Franz Ernst Brückmann's Treatise of 1721 and its Significance for the Understanding of Oolites

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dc.contributor.authorBurne, Robert
dc.contributor.authorEade, John (Chris)
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Josef
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:09:01Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2020-11-15T07:29:35Z
dc.description.abstractFranz Br�ckmann wrote his treatise on oolites in 1721. We present here an English translation of his Latin text which describes the following topics; derivation of the name �oolith� and its synonyms; interpretation as accumulations of fish-eggs; classification as stones; occurrence and diversity; environments of deposition and processes of lithification; explanations for the large quantities of eggs found; evidence for their biological origin; evidence for their biological associations; the distinction between ooliths and pisoliths; and localities of occurrence. We provide a commentary on Br�ckmann�s text, and then review the impact of his work by tracing the subsequent development of research on Oolites up to the early twentieth century. We conclude that Br�ckmann�s treatise is best regarded as a review paper that provided a platform for later research. His most significant contribution was to view oolites as accumulations of petrified biological remains rather than as �sports of nature�. Some of Br�ckmann�s near contemporaries such as Da Costa and De Saussure doubted that fish eggs could lithify and, although conceding their sedimentary origin, preferred to regard them as mineral concretions. Major developments in the sciences of stratigraphy, palaeontology, microbiology, microscopy, comparative sedimentology, and petrology would be required before more significant advances could be made on Br�ckmann�s interpretations.
dc.identifier.issn2193-1305
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/28845
dc.publisherMartin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
dc.sourceHallesches Jahrbuch fur Geowissenschaften
dc.source.urihttps://public.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/index.php/hjg/article/view/137
dc.titleThe Natural History of Ooliths: Franz Ernst Brückmann's Treatise of 1721 and its Significance for the Understanding of Oolites
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher website
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage114
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage93
local.contributor.affiliationBurne, Robert, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationEade, John (Chris), College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationPaul, Josef, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universitat
local.contributor.authoremailu9902343@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidBurne, Robert, u9902343
local.contributor.authoruidEade, John (Chris), u4769360
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor219999 - History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.absseo959999 - Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9910377xPUB60
local.identifier.citationvolume34
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9910377
local.type.statusPublished Version

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