The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites

By R. Reid, P. Visscher, A. Decho, John F. Stolz, B. Bebout, C. Dupraz, Ian G. Macintyre, Hans W. Paerl, J. Pinckney, L. Prufert-Bebout and 2 more. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology

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In Atmospheric Science

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In Environmental Chemistry

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2. Jonathan Franks
3. J. Stolz
4. T. Gutierrez
5. R. Reid
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6. C. Dupraz
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Citations in the corpus

• Cyanobacterial Mats and Stromatolites (2000, background): “The unicellular cyanobacterium Solentia bores in the calcium carbonate grains, dissolving them partly and the subsequent precipitation fuses the ooids, forming a solid lithi fi ed structure (Reid et al. 2000 ) .”
• Microbial biomineralization processes forming modern Ca:Mg carbonate stromatolites (2010, background): “In modern microbial mats, a complex biological and biochemical organization leads to several zones of photoautotrophic organisms with layers of aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophs metabolizing within variable amounts of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) (Reid et al., 2000; Visscher & Stolz, 20”
• Flat laminated microbial mat communities (2009, background): “Stromatolites and thrombolites are organosedimentary structures that commonly have avertical profile that protrudes above the horizontal plane (Monte, 1976; Reid et al., 1995, 2000).”
• Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems (2017, background): “Examples of hypersaline systems are numerous and a few include Salt Pond, San Salvador, Bahamas (Pinckney and Paerl, 1997); Guerrero Negro, Baha California Sur, Mexico (Ley et al., 2006); Laguna Tebenquiche, Salar de Atama, Chile (Fernandez et al., 2016); Don Juan Pond [McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarcti”
• Morphological and habitat evolution in the Cyanobacteria using a compartmentalization approach (2005, background): “Many modern large-cell-diameter filamentous cyanobacterial taxa are associated with laminated microbial mats and stromatolites (Reid et al., 2000; Neilan et al., 2002).”
• Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats (2009, background): “The precipitation of CaCO3 is due to an increase in alkalinity resulting from sulfate reduction and Ca2+ release from EPS, when degraded by various heterotrophic bacteria (Visscher et al., 1998, 2000; Reid et al., 2000; Paerl et al., 2001).”
• Cyanobacteria in Coral Reef Ecosystems: A Review (2012, background): “The growth of modern marine stromatolites represents a dynamic balance between sedimentation and intermittent lithification of cyanobacterial mats [8].”