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117:528–529
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130:245–251
Mojzsis SJ, Arrhenius G, McKeegan KD, Harrison TM, Nutman AP, Friend CRL (1996) Evidence
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Nisbet EG, Cann JR, Van Dover CL (1995) Origins of photosynthesis. Nature 373:479–480
Nisbet EG, Fowler CMR (1999) Archaean metabolic evolution of microbial mats. Proc R Soc Lond
B 266:2375–2382
Nisbet EG, Sleep NH (2001) The habitat and nature of early life. Nature 409:1083–1091
Noffke N (1998) Multidirected ripple marks rising from biological and sedimentological processes
in modern lower supratidal deposits (Mellum Island, southern North Sea). Geology 26:879–882
Noffke N (2000) Extensive microbial mats and their influences on the erosional and depositional
dynamics of a siliciclastic cold water environment (Lower Arenigian, Montagne Noire, France).
Sedim Geol 136:207–215
Noffke N, Awramik SM (2013) Stromatolites and MISS-differences between relatives. GSA Today
23:4–9
Noffke N, Beukes N, Bower D, Hazen RM, Swift DJP (2008) An actualistic perspective into
Archean worlds - (cyano-)bacterially induced sedimentary structures in the siliciclastic
Nhlazatse section, 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa. Geobiology 6:5–20
Noffke N, Decho AW, Stoodley P (2013) Slime through time: the fossil record of prokaryote
evolution. PALAIOS 28:1–5
Noffke N, Eriksson KA, Hazen RM, Simpson EL (2006) A new window into early Archean life:
microbial mats in Earth’s oldest siliciclastic tidal deposits (3.2 Ga Moodies Group,
South Africa). Geology 34:253–256
Noffke N, Gerdes G, Klenke T, Krumbein WE (2001) Microbially induced sedimentary structures-a
new category within the classification of primary sedimentary structures. J Sedim Res
71:649–656
Noffke N, Knoll AH, Grotzinger JP (2002) Sedimentary controls on the formation and preservation
of microbial mats in siliciclastic deposits: a case study from the upper Neoproterozoic Nama
Group, Namibia. PALAIOS 17:533–544
Noffke N, Paterson D (2008) Microbial interactions with physical sediment dynamics, and their
significance for the interpretation of Earth’s biological history. Geobiology 6:1–4
Oparin AI (1924) The origin of life-English edition 1938. The Macmillian Co., New York
Orange F, Westall F, Disnar J-R, Prieur D, Bienvenu N, Le Romancer M, Défarge C (2009)
Experimental silicification of the extremophilic archaea Pyrococcus abyssi and
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii: applications in the search for evidence of life in early earth
and extraterrestrial rocks. Geobiology 7:403–418
Oschmann W, Grasshof M, Gudo M (2002) The early evolution of the planet earth and the origin of
life. Senckenb Lethaea 82:285–294
Ospina-Alvarez N, Caetano M, Vale C, Santos-Echeandía J, Bernárdez P, Prego R (2014) Exchange
of nutrients across the sediment-water interface in intertidal ria systems (SW Europe). J Sea Res
85:349–358
Pan J, Bournod CN, Pizani NV, Cuadrado DG, Carmona NB (2013) Characterization of microbial
mats from a siliciclastic tidal flat (Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina). Geomicrobiol J 30:665–674
Pan J, Perillo VL, Cuadrado DG (2019) Quantification of microbial mat response to physical
disruption in siliciclastic sediments. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 230:106434. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.ecss.2019.106434
Perkins RG, Lavaud J, Serôdio J, Mouget JL, Cartaxana P, Rosa P, Barille L, Brotas V, Jesus BM
(2010) Vertical cell movement is a primary response of intertidal benthic biofilms to increasing
light dose. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 416:93–103
86
J. Pan