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  • Thumbnail for Stromatolite
    mineral "microbial mats". In turn, these mats build up layer by layer, growing gradually over time. This process generates the characteristic lamination of...
    40 KB (3,939 words) - 03:54, 26 June 2024
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    which acts as an electron acceptor. The best-known types of microbial mat may be flat laminated mats, which form on approximately horizontal surfaces, and...
    42 KB (4,550 words) - 05:41, 6 September 2024
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    Gemerden H, Tughan CS, De Wit R, Herbert RA (1989-02-01). "Laminated microbial ecosystems on sheltered beaches in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands". FEMS Microbiology...
    30 KB (3,677 words) - 08:03, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for McMurdo Dry Valleys
    thick, and composed of interbedded sandstones, pebble conglomerates, and laminated silty mudstones. This Pleistocene layer disconformably overlies Pliocene...
    20 KB (2,034 words) - 09:55, 15 April 2024
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    Stolz, John F. (1 October 2009). "Flat laminated microbial mat communities". Earth-Science Reviews. Microbial Mats in Earth's Fossil Record of Life: Geobiology...
    84 KB (10,295 words) - 05:42, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Algal mat
    bacteria and sediments are deposited or grow in place, creating dark-laminated layers. Stromatolites are prime examples of algal mats. Algal mats played...
    10 KB (1,312 words) - 03:54, 18 May 2024
  • crystal splays. This cross-laminated sandstone is, in turn, overlain by a thick laterally extensive bed of wrinkly laminated microbial mats with domical and...
    22 KB (2,656 words) - 01:25, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Earliest known life forms
    units. Stromatolites are laminated sedimentary structures created by photosynthetic organisms as they establish a microbial mat on a sediment surface...
    67 KB (6,748 words) - 18:31, 9 September 2024
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    Slater, Sam M.; Vajda, Vivi (17 September 2021). "Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction". Nature...
    359 KB (38,640 words) - 15:44, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bioturbation
    of bioturbation, laminated microbial mats were the dominant biological structures of the ocean floor and drove much of the ecosystem functions. As bioturbation...
    62 KB (7,536 words) - 10:38, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Microbialite
    forming tests, shells or skeletons. Microbialites can also be defined as microbial mats with lithification capacity. Bacteria can precipitate carbonate both...
    21 KB (2,212 words) - 05:33, 21 August 2024
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    source, and chemoheterotrophs. Thick laminated multilayered phototrophic biofilms are usually referred to as microbial mats or phototrophic mats (see also...
    13 KB (1,601 words) - 01:12, 8 March 2023
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    are also known from the fossil record. Thrombolites are poorly laminated or non-laminated clotted structures formed by cyanobacteria common in the fossil...
    111 KB (11,445 words) - 22:28, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Oxidation Event
    burrowing organisms that destroy lamination had not yet evolved during the time frame of the Great Oxygenation Event. Thus laminated black shale by itself is...
    85 KB (9,541 words) - 00:28, 7 September 2024
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    hdl:10486/1313. Flowers, April. "Deforestation In The Amazon Affects Microbial Life As Well As Ecosystems". Science News. Redorbit.com. Archived from the original...
    13 KB (1,461 words) - 13:22, 23 May 2024
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    Farías, María Eugenia, ed. (2020). Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments: Biofilms, Microbial Mats, Microbialites and Endoevaporites...
    29 KB (3,213 words) - 02:41, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lignin
    lignin minimizes the accessibility of cellulose and hemicellulose to microbial enzymes, leading to a reduced digestibility of biomass. Some ligninolytic...
    34 KB (3,819 words) - 21:41, 14 July 2024
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    sustainable materials (and by a sustainable process) that reduces demands on ecosystems during its life-cycle.[according to whom?] This includes harvest, production...
    13 KB (1,596 words) - 13:18, 7 April 2024
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    Farías, María Eugenia, ed. (2020). Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments: Biofilms, Microbial Mats, Microbialites and Endoevaporites...
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    They may also be used as an organic mulch in gardening, landscaping, and ecosystem restoration; in bioreactors for denitrification; and as a substrate for...
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