Microbial mats are multilayered, self-sustaining biofilms composed of diverse microorganisms—bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses—tightly bound in extracellular polymers. They form at the ...

Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...

The outcrop in Morocco where Associate Professor Rowan Martindale noticed the wrinkle structures formed by microbial communities. Note that the large ripples on the rock slab were formed by turbidity ...

Somewhat akin to astronomical dark matter (the unseen stuff thought to make up some 80 percent of all matter in the cosmos), so-called microbiological ‘dark matter’ here on Earth poses almost as much ...