This book contains the proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Göttingen, Germany. It highlights new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites.
Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Stromatolites and microbialites are interpreted as biosedimentological remains of biofilms and microbial mats. These structures are important environmental and evolutionary archives which give us information about ancient habitats, biodiversity, and evolution of complex benthic ecosystems. However, many geobiological aspects of these structures are still unknown or only poorly understood. The present proceedings highlight the new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites presented at the occasion of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Göttingen, Germany.
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Advances in Geobiology of Stromatolite Formation
Proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium held in Göttingen 2008
Reitner, Joachim, Queric, Nadia-Valerie & Arp, Gernot (eds.)
Foreword
Introduction
Stromatolite Formation
Baburajendran et al
Molecular approaches to studying living stromatolites
Meister et al
Magnesium Inhibition controls Spherical Carbonate Precipitation in Ultrabasic Springwater (Cedars, California) and Culture Experiments
Guido et al.
Could Rare earth Element patterns discriminate between biotic and abiotic mineralization?
Sumina, E.L. et al.
Stromatolites: "Skeleton" and "soft body"
Takashima C. et al
Microbial control to lamina formation in a travertine at Crystal Geyser, Utah
Warthmann, R. et al.
The role of purple sulfur bacteria in carbonate precipitation of modern and
possible Early Precambrian stromatolites
Wolicka, D. & Andrzej Borkowski, A.
Biogeochemistry of CaCO3 precipitation under sulphate-reduction conditions
Microbial Ecology
Babel et al
Gypsum microbialite domes shaped by brine currents from the Badenian evaporites of
western Ukraine
Heller et al
Microbial ecology and biomarkers of Mud Volcanoes of Nirano (Northern Italy)
Rodríguez-Martínez, M. et al
Tolyppammina gregaria-Frutexites assemblage and ferromanganese crusts: a coupled nutrient-metal interplay in the Carnian sedimentary condensed record of Hallstatt Facies (Austria)
Radtke, G. & Golubic, S.
Microbial euendolithic assemblages and microborings in intertidal and shallow marine habitats
Reolid, M.
Interactions between microbes and siliceous sponges from Upper Jurassic buildups of External Prebetic (SE Spain)
Schmidt, A. et al
Microbial pattern in amber
Delecat et al.
Microbial recovery after Triassic/Jurassic extinction on the Steinplatte-Reef (Austria)
Microbial Biomineralisation
Jiménez-Lopez, et al.
Myxococcus Xanthus colony calcification: a study to better understand the processes involved in the formation of this stromatolite-like structure
Kurz et al
Trace element and biomarker signatures in iron-precipitating microbial mats from the tunnel
of Äspö (Sweden)
Fossil Record
Adachi et al
Lower Ordovician stromatolites from the Anhui Province of South China: construction and geobiological significance
Kranendonk Van, Martin J.
Morphology as an indictor of biogenicity for 3.5-3.2 Ga fossil stromatolites from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
Bouougri, et al
Sedimentology and palaeoecology of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in Southern Namibia: Implications for infaunal vendobiont communities
Porada et al
Ediacaran biolamintes from southern Namibia
Reitner et al.
Cloudina-thrombolites from the Zaris Mountains (Southern Namibia)
Serezhnikova E. A.
microbial binding as a probable cause of Taphonomic variability of Vendian fossils: carbonate casting?
Future Aspects.
