Study finds that rare Antarctic floods can deliver sudden carbon pulses into a sealed lake, Lake Untersee, feeding hidden ...

Microbial mats are highly organised, layered biofilms formed by diverse communities of microorganisms. These systems, often dominated by cyanobacteria, orchestrate a variety of biogeochemical ...

Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...

Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ...

Microbial stromatolites represent the earliest geological record of life on Earth, which dominated the planet for almost 3 billion years. Stromatolites, in general, refer to a range of microbial ...

One of the earliest known fossil animals, Dickinsonia lived on the sea floor over a half billion years ago. Based on traces of a biochemical marker, coprostanol, UC Davis paleobiologists propose that ...

The outcrop in Morocco where Associate Professor Rowan Martindale noticed the wrinkle structures formed by microbial communities. Note that the large ripples on the rock slab were formed by turbidity ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye, they look like a collection of rocks and ...