Stromatolites: Interaction of Microbes with Sediments

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Proterozoic Stromatolites of the Itaiacoca Group, Southeast Brazil....Pages 3-19
Meso-Neoproterozoic Stromatolites from the Indravati and Chhattisgarh Basins, Central India....Pages 21-42
Stromatolites and Cyanobacterial Mats in Peritidal Evaporative Environments in the Neoproterozoic of Bas-Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) and South Gabon....Pages 43-63
Microbiota and Microbial Mats within Ancient Stromatolites in South China....Pages 65-86
Morphological Changes in Microscopic–Megascopic Life and Stromatolites Recorded During Late Palaeoproterozoic–Neoproterozoic Transition: The Vindhyan Supergroup, India....Pages 87-114
Farrel Quartzite Microfossils in the Goldsworthy Greenstone Belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia....Pages 115-132
Ediacaran Krol Carbonates of the Lesser Himalaya, India: Stromatolitic Facies, Depositional Environment and Diagenesis....Pages 133-156
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Aptian to Cenomanian Deeper-Water Hiatal Stromatolites from the Northern Tethyan Margin....Pages 159-186
Phosphatic Microbialites in the Triassic Phosphogenic Facies of Svalbard....Pages 187-222
Microbialites in the Middle–Upper Jurassic Ammonitico Rosso of the Southern Alps (Italy)....Pages 223-250
Microbialites as Markers of Biotic and Abiotic Events in the Karst District, Slovenia and Italy....Pages 251-272
Lower Cretaceous Stromatolites in Far East Asia: Examples in Japan and Korea....Pages 273-287
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Modern Marine Stromatolitic Structures: The Sediment Dilemma....Pages 291-312
Are Cyanobacterial Mats Precursors of Stromatolites?....Pages 313-341
Living Stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia: Microbial Inhabitants....Pages 343-358
Character, Analysis, and Preservation of Biogenicity in Terrestrial Siliceous Stromatolites from Geothermal Settings....Pages 359-381
Microbial Diversity in Modern Stromatolites....Pages 383-405
Microbialites and Sediments: A 2-Year Record of Burial and Exposure of Stromatolites and Thrombolites at Highborne Cay Bahamas....Pages 407-425
Modern Stromatolite Ecosystems at Alkaline and Hypersaline High-Altitude Lakes in the Argentinean Puna....Pages 427-441
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Micro-FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging of ~1,900 Ma Stromatolitic Chert....Pages 445-461
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Elemental and Isotopic Analysis by NanoSIMS: Insights for the Study of Stromatolites and Early Life on Earth....Pages 463-493
Stromatolites, Organic-Walled Microorganisms, Laser Raman Spectroscopy, and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy of the Meso-Neoproterozoic Buxa Formation, Ranjit Window, Sikkim Lesser Himalaya, NE India....Pages 495-522
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Petrology, Elemental and Isotope Geochemistry and Geomicrobiology of Carbonate Infillings and Biofilms Lining Cracks Below the Neoproterozoic (Sturtian) Cap Carbonate in the Mirbat Inlier, Southernmost Oman....Pages 525-540
Cave Geomicrobiology in India: Status and Prospects....Pages 541-569
The Role of Sulfate Reduction in Stromatolites and Microbial Mats: Ancient and Modern Perspectives....Pages 571-590
Carbonate Sediments Microbially Induced by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Hydrocarbon-Seeps....Pages 591-605
Biostratigraphy, Sedimentation and Chemostratigraphy of the Tertiary Neotethys Sediments from the NE Himalaya, India....Pages 607-630
Evidence of Microbial Biomineralization in Modern and Ancient Stromatolites....Pages 631-649
Possible Fe Isotope Fractionation During Microbiological Processing in Ancient and Modern Marine Environments....Pages 651-673
New Representations on the Nature of Stromatolites....Pages 675-686
Sulfur Isotopes in Stromatolites....Pages 687-701
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Preservation Potential and Habitability of Clay Minerals- and Iron-Rich Environments: Novel Analogs for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory Mission....Pages 705-722
The Sulfur Cycle on the Early Earth: Implications for the Search of Life on Europa and Elsewhere....Pages 723-736
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Summary, Conclusions, and Future Prospects....Pages 739-742
Back Matter....Pages 743-751