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systems. Springer, pp 401–420
Edgar LA, Pickett-Heaps JD (1984) Diatom locomotion. Prog Phycol Res 3:47–88
Eriksson PG, Cheney ES (1992) Evidence for the transition to an oxygen-rich atmosphere during
the evolution of red beds in the lower proterozoic sequences of southern Africa. Precambrian
Res 54:257–269
Farías ME, Rascovan N, Toneatti DM, Albarracín VH, Flores MR, Poiré DG, Collavino MM,
Aguilar OM, Vazquez MP, Polerecky L (2013) The discovery of stromatolites developing at
3570 m above sea level in a high-altitude volcanic lake Socompa, Argentinean Andes. PLoS
One 8(1):e53497. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053497
Farmer GT, Cook J (2013) Climate change science: a modern synthesis. Vol. In: 1-The physical
climate. Springer, Heidelberg
Fayó R, Pan J, Espinosa MA (2020) Microbial mat and surface sediment communities from a
shallow oxbow lake in the Colorado River floodplain, Argentina Geomicrob J 37:937–949
Fenchel T, Kühl M (2000) Artificial cyanobacterial mats: growth, structure, and vertical zonation
patterns. Microb Ecol 40:85–93
Flemming H-C, Wuertz S (2019) Bacteria and archaea on earth and their abundance in biofilms. Nat
Rev Microbiol 17:247–260
Gao Q, Garcia-Pichel F (2011) Microbial ultraviolet sunscreens. Nat Rev Microbiol 9:791–802
García de Lomas J, Corzo A, García CM, van Bergeijk SA (2005) Microbenthos in a hypersaline
tidal lagoon: factors affecting microhabitat, community structure and mass exchange at the
sediment-water interface. Aquat Microb Ecol 38:53–69
García Ruiz JM, Carnerup A, Christy AG, Welham NJ, Hyde ST (2002) Morphology: an ambiguous indicator of biogenicity. Astrobiology 2:353–369
Garcia-Pichel F, Castenholz RW (1991) Characterization and biological implications of
scytonemin, a cyanobacterial sheath pigment. J Phycol 27:395–409
Garwood JC, Hill PS, MacIntyre HL, Law BA (2015) Grain sizes retained by diatom biofilms
during erosion on tidal flats linked to bed sediment texture. Cont Shelf Res 104:37–44
Gerdes G (2007) Structures left by modern microbial mats in their host sediments. In: Schieber J,
Bose PK, Eriksson PG, Banerjee S, Sarkar S, Altermann W, Catuneau O (eds) Atlas of microbial
mat features preserved within the clastic rock record. Elsevier, pp 5–38
Gerdes G, Dunajtschik-Piewak K, Riege H, Taher AG, Krumbein WE, Reineck H-E (1994)
Structural diversity of biogenic carbonate particles in microbial mats. Sedimentology
41:1273–1294
Gerdes G, Klenke T, Noffke N (2000) Microbial signatures in peritidal siliciclastic sediments: a
catalogue. Sedimentology 47:279–308
Gerdes G, Krumbein W, Reineck H (1991) Biolaminations-ecological versus depositional dynamics. In: Einsele G, Ricken W, Seilacher A (eds) Cycles and events in stratigraphy. SpringerVerlag, pp 592–607
Grotzinger JP, Knoll AH (1999) Stromatolites in Precambrian carbonates: evolutionary mileposts
or environmental dipsticks? Annu Rev Earth Planetary Sci 27:313–358
Hagadorn JW, McDowell C (2012) Microbial influence on erosion, grain transport and bedform
genesis in sandy substrates under unidirectional flow. Sedimentology 59:795–808
Haldane JBS (1932) The causes of evolution. Longmans, London
Hall-Stoodley L, Costerton JW, Stoodley P (2004) Bacterial biofilms: from the natural environment
to infectious diseases. Nat Rev Microbiol 2:95–108
Han T-M, Runnegar B (1992) Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old Negaunee
iron-formation, Michigan. Science 257:232–235
Hazen RM, Papineau D, Bleeker W, Downs RT, Ferry JM, McCoy TJ, Sverjensky DA, Yang H
(2008) Mineral evolution. Am Mineral 93:1693–1720
Hickman-Lewis K, Gautret P, Arbaret L, Sorieul S, De Wit R, Foucher F, Cavalazzi B, Westall F
(2019) Mechanistic morphogenesis of organo-sedimentary structures growing under
84
J. Pan