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  title info:
    title: Geobiology
    sub title: Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today
  name:
    name part: Noffke, Nora.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 194 p. online resource.
  abstract: A murmur is heard from the depths of time. Life and Earth are engaged in a dialog that has lasted for four billion years. Sometimes it’s a whisper, sometimes a roar. One part sometimes gets the upper hand, dominates the discussion and sets the agenda. But mostly the two have some kind of mutual understanding, and the murmur goes on. Most of us don’t listen. Nora does. She listens, and she tries to understand. Nora Noffke has focused her scientific career on the interaction between the living and the non-living. This is no mean task in an academic world where you are usually either this or that, such as either a biologist or a geologist. The amount of stuff you need to grasp is so large that it usually feels better to sit comfortably on one chair, rather than to risk falling between them. Geobiology is not for the faint of heart. Nora’s focus is on that all-important biological substance mucus, or EPS (ext- cellular polymeric substance). EPS is the oil in the machinery, the freeway to travel for many small animals and protists, the coat of armour for others, the mortar in the brick wall for yet others. For microbes such as cyanobacteria it may be the world they built, the world they live, eat, fight, multiply, and die in.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Cyanobacteria: Taxonomic groups, physiology, photosynthesis, significance for Earth history -- Biofilms and Microbial Mats -- Microbial Interactions with Physical Sediment Dynamics in Modern Tidal Settings -- Microbially Induced sedimentary Structures -- Distribution of Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in the Fossil Record -- Field Trip Sites: Modern and Ancient -- Significance of Structures as Biosignatures for the Detection of Life on other Planets.
  note: by Nora Noffke.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sedimentology
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  classification: QE471-471.15
  classification: 551.3
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642127724
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12772-4
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    record creation date: 100628
    record change date: 20151204190952.0
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