Scientist accidentally stumbles across bizarre ancient ‘wrinkle structures’ in Morocco that shouldn't be there

Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on ...
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Look again! Those wrinkly rocks may actually be a fossilized microbial community

In a recent paper published in Geology, scientists propose that certain kinds of wrinkle structures in sedimentary rock are the remnants of ancient microbial communites, similar to those found in deep ...
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Microbial Mats And Their Ecosystem Dynamics

Microbial mats are highly organised, layered biofilms formed by diverse communities of microorganisms. These systems, often dominated by cyanobacteria, orchestrate a variety of biogeochemical ...
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Geobiology : microbial mats in sandy deposits from the Archean era to today / Nora Noffke

Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...
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Microbial mats in siliciclastic depositional systems through time / edited by Nora Noffke, Henry Chafetz

"Based on presentations made at the Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits (Archean to Today) SEPM research conference, Denver, Colorado and Dinosaur Ridge, on May 21-23, 2010"--T.p. verso. NH copy ...