Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Founding of the Term ‘Stromatolite’: Ernst Louis Kalkowsky (1851–1938) and His Early Stromatolite Research....Pages 3-11
Kalkowsky’s Stromatolites and Oolites (Lower Buntsandstein, Northern Germany)....Pages 13-28
The Nature of Stromatolites: 3,500 Million Years of History and a Century of Research....Pages 29-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Modern Marine Stromatolites of Little Darby Island, Exuma Archipelago, Bahamas: Environmental Setting, Accretion Mechanisms and Role of Euendoliths....Pages 77-89
Molecular Approaches to Studying Living Stromatolites....Pages 91-100
Magnesium Inhibition Controls Spherical Carbonate Precipitation in Ultrabasic Springwater (Cedars, California) and Culture Experiments....Pages 101-121
Microbial Control on Lamina Formation in a Travertine of Crystal Geyser, Utah....Pages 123-133
Photosynthesis-Induced Stromatolite Formation in the Freshwater Creeks....Pages 135-139
The Role of Purple Sulphur Bacteria in Carbonate Precipitation of Modern and Possibly Early Precambrian Stromatolites....Pages 141-149
Precipitation of CaCO 3 Under Sulphate-Reduction Conditions....Pages 151-160
 Myxococcus xanthus Colony Calcification: An Study to Better Understand the Processes Involved in the Formation of this Stromatolite-Like Structure....Pages 161-181
Are Stromatolites the Most Ancient Skeletal Organisms?....Pages 183-185
Microbial Mats and Microbialites in the Freshwater Laguna Bacalar, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico....Pages 187-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Geomicrobiology of Fluid Venting Structures at the Salse di Nirano Mud Volcano Area in the Northern Apennines (Italy)....Pages 209-220
Trace Element and Biomarker Signatures in Iron-Precipitating Microbial Mats from the Tunnel of Äspö (Sweden)....Pages 221-231
Microbial Euendolithic Assemblages and Microborings in Intertidal and Shallow Marine Habitats: Insight in Cyanobacterial Speciation....Pages 233-263
On Microbiocorrosion....Pages 265-276
The Deep-Sea Chemoautotroph Microbial World as Experienced by the Mediterranean Metazoans Through Time....Pages 277-295
Gypsum Microbialite Domes Shaped by Brine Currents from the Badenian Evaporites of Western Ukraine....Pages 297-320
The Microbialite-Vermetid Community of the Salento Peninsula in Southern Italy: A Late Miocene Example of Automicrite Deposition....Pages 321-329
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The Characterisation of Sedimentary Organic Matter in Carbonates with Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy....Pages 331-342
Interactions Between Microbes and Siliceous Sponges from Upper Jurassic Buildups of External Prebetic (SE Spain)....Pages 343-354
Aftermath of the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary Crisis: Spiculite Formation on Drowned Triassic Steinplatte Reef-Slope by Communities of Hexactinellid Sponges (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)....Pages 355-390
Microbes in Resinous Habitats: A Compilation from Modern and Fossil Resins....Pages 391-407
 Tolypammina gregaria Wendt 1969 -Frutexites Assemblage and Ferromanganese Crusts: A Coupled Nutrient-Metal Interplay in the Carnian Sedimentary Condensed Record of Hallstatt Facies (Austria)....Pages 409-434
New Geochemical Method to Characterise Microbialites from the St. Cassian Formation, Dolomites, Northeastern Italy....Pages 435-451
Importance of Rare Earth Element Patterns in Discrimination Between Biotic and Abiotic Mineralization....Pages 453-462
Lower Ordovician Stromatolites from the Anhui Province of South China: Construction and Geobiological Significance....Pages 463-472
Sedimentology and Palaeoecology of Ernietta- Bearing Ediacaran Deposits in Southern Namibia: Implications for Infaunal Vendobiont Communities....Pages 473-506
Biolaminated Siliciclastic Deposits....Pages 507-524
Microbial Binding as a Probable Cause of Taphonomic Variability of Vendian Fossils: Carbonate Casting?....Pages 525-535
Morphology as an Indictor of Biogenicity for 3.5–3.2 Ga Fossil Stromatolites from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia....Pages 537-554
Back Matter....Pages 555-559