Unusual microbial mat-related structural diversity 2.1 billion years ago and implications for the Francevillian biota

Microbially induced sedimentary structures from the 1.64 Ga Chuanlinggou Formation, Jixian, North China

(2017) Hao Yang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Microbial mats in the terrestrial Lower Triassic of North China and implications for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

(2017) Daoliang Chu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Nanoscale analysis of preservation of ca. 2.1 Ga old Francevillian microfossils, Gabon

(2017) Stellina G. Lekele Baghekema et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Desiccation cracks in siliciclastic deposits: Microbial mat-related compared to abiotic sedimentary origin

(2017) Olga Kovalchuk et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Depositional setting of the 2·1 Ga Francevillian macrobiota (Gabon): Rapid mud settling in a shallow basin swept by high-density sand flows

(2017) Jean-Yves Reynaud et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Origin of red beds in the Paleoproterozoic Franceville Basin, Gabon, and implications for sandstone-hosted uranium mineralization

(2016) O. M. Bankole et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

(2016) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Microbially induced sedimentary structures in the Paleoproterozoic, upper Huronian Supergroup, Canada

(2016) C. Hill et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microbial mat-related structures shared by both siliciclastic and carbonate formations

(2016) Subir Sarkar et al.   Journal of Palaeogeography-English

Microbial Mat Communities along an Oxygen Gradient in a Perennially Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake

(2015) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antarctic microbial mats: A modern analog for Archean lacustrine oxygen oases

(2015) Dawn Y. Sumner et al.   GEOLOGY

Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)

(2015) Martin Homann et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Arsenic stress after the Proterozoic glaciations

(2015) Ernest Chi Fru et al.   Scientific Reports

Early Triassic wrinkle structures on land: stressed environments and oases for life

(2015) Daoliang Chu et al.   Scientific Reports

Horizontal gene transfer and the rock record: comparative genomics of phylogenetically distant bacteria that induce wrinkle structure formation in modern sediments

(2014) B. E. Flood et al.   Geobiology

2.9–1.9Ga paleoalterations of Archean granitic basement of the Franceville basin (Gabon)

(2014) Idalina Moubiya Mouélé et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Microbial mat records in siliciclastic rocks: Examples from Four Indian Proterozoic basins and their modern equivalents in Gulf of Cambay

(2014) Subir Sarkar et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Microbial shaping of sedimentary wrinkle structures

(2014) G. Mariotti et al.   Nature Geoscience

The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity

(2014) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   PLoS One

From detrital heritage to diagenetic transformations, the message of clay minerals contained within shales of the Palaeoproterozoic Francevillian basin (Gabon)

(2014) Lauriss Ngombi-Pemba et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The influence of microbial mats on the formation of sand volcanoes and mounds in the Red Sea coastal plain, south Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

(2014) Rushdi J. Taj et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian

(2014) Luis A. Buatois et al.   Nature Communications

Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

(2013) Nora Noffke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Uranium in iron formations and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2013) C.A. Partin et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Were the 2.1-Gyr fossil colonial organisms discovered in the Francevillian basin (Palaeoproterozoic, Gabon) buried by turbidites?

(2013) Olivier Parize et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

(2013) C.A. Partin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Putative domal microbial structures in fluvial siliciclastic facies of the Mesoproterozoic (1.09 Ga) Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA

(2013) Dylan T. Wilmeth et al.   Geobiology

Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

(2013) Mike Meyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Formation of Kinneyia via shear-induced instabilities in microbial mats

(2013) K. Thomas et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Evidence for 2.0Ga continental microbial mats in a paleodesert setting

(2013) Edward L. Simpson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth's atmosphere

(2013) D. E. Canfield et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Surface Orientation Affects the Direction of Cone Growth by Leptolyngbya sp. Strain C1, a Likely Architect of Coniform Structures Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park)

(2012) Kristina Reyes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Kinneyia-Type Wrinkle Structures--Critical Review And Model Of Formation

(2012) H. Porada et al.   PALAIOS

Bilaterian Burrows and Grazing Behavior at >585 Million Years Ago

(2012) E. Pecoits et al.   SCIENCE

Archean tufted microbial mats and the Great Oxidation Event: new insights into an ancient problem

(2011) D. T. Flannery et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

(2011) A. Bekker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

(2011) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

(2011) Murray Gingras et al.   Nature Geoscience

Undirected motility of filamentous cyanobacteria produces reticulate mats

(2010) R. N. SHEPARD et al.   Geobiology

Stable isotope fractionation during the methanogenic degradation of organic matter in the sediment of an acidic bog lake, Lake Grosse Fuchskuhle

(2010) Ralf Conrad et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago

(2010) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   NATURE

Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

(2010) Ivan A. Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Geological constraints on the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2010) James Farquhar et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The paleoenvironmental distribution of Phanerozoic wrinkle structures

(2009) Scott A. Mata et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Estimating palaeo-water depth from the physical rock record

(2009) Adrian Immenhauser   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Topographic control on distribution of modern microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS): A case study from Texas coast

(2009) Sushanta Bose et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

The criteria for the biogeneicity of microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) in Archean and younger, sandy deposits

(2008) Nora Noffke   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Microbial mat mediated structures in the Ediacaran Sonia Sandstone, Rajasthan, India, and their implications for proterozoic sedimentation

(2007) S SARKAR et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH