Geobiology
Subtitle: microbial mats in sandy deposits from the Archean era to today
By: Nora Noffke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9783642127717
Subjects: Sedimentation and deposition; Microbial mats; Geobiology
Description: "This book describes microbial mats that occur in sandy marine environments from 3.2 billion years ago to the present. It gives an overview of the growth and development of microbial mats in modern settings, the interaction of microbial mats with physical sediment dynamics, and the formation and preservation of microbially induced sedimentary structures. These structures are much more common than stromatolites, and are abundant throughout Earth history. They constitute a significant archive for the understanding of Earth's earliest environments, and are important as biosignatures in the detection of life on other planets. This book is for sedimentologists, paleontologists, microbiologists, and geobiologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.