Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

• Main Authors: Reitner, Joachim (Author), Quéric, Nadia-Valérie (Author), Arp, Gernot (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 131
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Microbial ecology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Microbial Ecology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

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 environme...