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    Microbialite is a benthic sedimentary deposit made of carbonate mud (particle diameter < 5 μm) that is formed with the mediation of microbes. The constituent...
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    stratum' and λίθος (líthos) 'rock') are layered sedimentary formations (microbialite) that are created mainly by photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria...
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    Marble Canyon, British Columbia, Canada home to colonies of freshwater microbialites. It is located between the towns of Lillooet and Cache Creek (29.44...
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  • is known from a microbialite bed discovered in the Troistedt Quarry near Weimar, as part of the Meißner Formation. The microbialite has been dated to...
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    United States and Turkey conducted research on Lake Salda's shoreline microbialite sediments. The rocks along the shoreline of Lake Salda were formed over...
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    is deemed as Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus, has been discovered inside a microbialite. 103 species of phytoplankton have been recorded in the lake including...
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    A.; Levit, G. & Palinska, K.A. (2003). "Biofilm, Biodictyon, Biomat Microbialites, Oolites, Stromatolites, Geophysiology, Global Mechanism, Parahistology"...
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    2008. Retrieved 29 December 2014. Sheehan, P.M.; Harris, M.T. (2004). "Microbialite resurgence after the Late Ordovician extinction". Nature. 430 (6995):...
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    The microbialite refuge hypothesis has been criticised as reflecting a taphonomic bias due to the greater preservation potential of microbialite deposits...
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    surface, marked by volcanoes and continents, features already round microbialites. The Moon, still orbiting Earth much closer than today and still dominating...
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