Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

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Advances in Geobiology of Stromatolite Formation

Proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium held in Göttingen 2008

Reitner, Joachim, Queric, Nadia-Valerie & Arp, Gernot (eds.)

Foreword

Introduction

Stromatolite Formation

Baburajendran et al

Molecular approaches to studying living stromatolites

Meister et al

Magnesium Inhibition controls Spherical Carbonate Precipitation in Ultrabasic Springwater (Cedars, California) and Culture Experiments

Guido et al.

Could Rare earth Element patterns discriminate between biotic and abiotic mineralization?

Sumina, E.L. et al.

Stromatolites: "Skeleton" and "soft body"

Takashima C. et al

Microbial control to lamina formation in a travertine at Crystal Geyser, Utah

Warthmann, R. et al.

The role of purple sulfur bacteria in carbonate precipitation of modern and

possible Early Precambrian stromatolites

Wolicka, D. & Andrzej Borkowski, A.

Biogeochemistry of CaCO3 precipitation under sulphate-reduction conditions

Microbial Ecology

Babel et al

Gypsum microbialite domes shaped by brine currents from the Badenian evaporites of

western Ukraine

Heller et al

Microbial ecology and biomarkers of Mud Volcanoes of Nirano (Northern Italy)

Rodríguez-Martínez, M. et al

Tolyppammina gregaria-Frutexites assemblage and ferromanganese crusts: a coupled nutrient-metal interplay in the Carnian sedimentary condensed record of Hallstatt Facies (Austria)

Radtke, G. & Golubic, S.

Microbial euendolithic assemblages and microborings in intertidal and shallow marine habitats

Reolid, M.

Interactions between microbes and siliceous sponges from Upper Jurassic buildups of External Prebetic (SE Spain)

Schmidt, A. et

Joachim Reitner: Professor (chair) for Paleontology and Geobiology, director of the Department of Geobiology and the Courant Research Centre of Geobiology at the University of Göttingen. Awardee of the DFG G.W.-Leibniz award and ordinary member of the Göttingen Academy of Science. Coordinator of the DFG research unit 571 "Geobiology of Organo- and Biofilms"