microbial mat technical

To our astonishment it had a completely different type of microbial mat growing at its bottom.

Before the Cambrian, the sea floor was covered by microbial mats.

They occasionally form structured colonies which go on to create microbial mats.

These increases would have made microbial mats the planet's dominant ecosystems.

If such endosymbiosis was an important factor, microbial mats would have encouraged it.

Several ponds, with and without microbial mats, were constructed.

The researchers harvested microbial mat samples from southern California.

As a result microbial mats began to produce the atmosphere we know today, in which free oxygen is a vital component.

Microbial mats probably enabled the trace to be preserved.

The microbial mats were slow, careful, with the gingerly care of the vastly elderly.

Research at station includes dune stabilization using grasses and microbial mats.

Of those, wrinkle structures and microbial mat chips are the most abundant in the fossil record.

Continuing along the beach, there is an area of hot water springs with plenty of microbial mats.

Although usually only a few centimetres thick, microbial mats create a wide range of internal chemical environments.

Their diverse utilization of many electron donors makes this layer stand out in the microbial mat community.

Microbial mats formed a blanket, cutting off the underlying sediments from the ocean water above.

These microbial mats once dominated early Earth.

Microbial mats: modern and ancient microorganisms in stratified systems.

The ability of microbial mat communities to use a vast range of "foods" has recently led to interest in industrial uses.

Microbial mats surrounded the 160 C vents, and included a novel jelly-like organism.

Microbial mats grow mostly on submerged or moist surfaces but a few survive in deserts.

The lake bottom is covered by thick microbial mats, from which rise microbialite carbonate structures.

From the evidence in these rocks, it is likely that early life existed in the form of microbial mats and stromatolites.

A benthic phototrophic microbial mat dominated by cyanobacteria is also found within the lake.