Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Stromatolites and microbialites are interpreted as biosedimentological remains of biofilms and microbial mats. These structures are important environmental and evolutionary archives which give us information about ancient habitats, biodiversity, and evolution of complex benthic ecosystems. However, many geobiological aspects of these structures are still unknown or only poorly understood. The present proceedings highlight the new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites presented at the occasion of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Göttingen, Germany.
Draft Table of contents Advances in Geobiology of Stromatolite
Formation Proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium held in Gottingen 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)
Rodriguez-Martinez, 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 al Microbial
pattern in amber Delecat et al. Microbial recovery after
Triassic/Jurassic extinction on the Steinplatte-Reef (Austria) Microbial
Biomineralisation Jimenez-Lopez, et al. Myxococcus Xanthus colony
calcification: a study to better understand the processes involved in the
formation of this stromatolite-like structure Kurz et al Trace element
and biomarker signatures in iron-precipitating microbial mats from the tunnel
of Aspo (Sweden) Fossil Record Adachi et al Lower Ordovician
stromatolites from the Anhui Province of South China: construction and
geobiological significance Kranendonk Van, Martin J. Morphology as an
indictor of biogenicity for 3.5-3.2 Ga fossil stromatolites from the Pilbara
Craton, Western Australia Bouougri, et al Sedimentology and
palaeoecology of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in Southern Namibia:
Implications for infaunal vendobiont communities Porada et al
Ediacaran biolamintes from southern Namibia Reitner et al.
Cloudina-thrombolites from the Zaris Mountains (Southern Namibia)
Serezhnikova E. A. microbial binding as a probable cause of Taphonomic
variability of Vendian fossils: carbonate casting? Future Aspects.
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"
Nadia-Valérie Quéric:PhD in microbial ecology of deep marine sediments at the University of Bremen. Research assistant for geomicrobiology at the Department of Geobiology of the University of Göttingen.
Gernot Arp:PhD in paleontology and geobiology of ancient microbial systems at the University of Göttingen. Research associate for paleontology and geomicrobiology at the Department of Geobiology of the University of Göttingen. Associate coordinator of the DFG research unit 571 "Geobiology of Organo- and Biofilms".
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