Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...
Understanding microbial communities can give clues to how life shaped the Earth billions of years ago – and help find signs of life on distant planets. Life has shaped the chemical and geological ...
Microbial mats are highly organised, layered biofilms formed by diverse communities of microorganisms. These systems, often dominated by cyanobacteria, orchestrate a variety of biogeochemical ...
The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then ...
"Based on presentations made at the Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits (Archean to Today) SEPM research conference, Denver, Colorado and Dinosaur Ridge, on May 21-23, 2010"--T.p. verso. NH copy ...
South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...