Microatoll microbialites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: Morphological analogues ofCryptozoön proliferum Hall, the first formally-named stromatolite

Burne, Robert V.; Moore, Linda S.

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“…95 Both the deep basin and the mean annual water level are generally lower than sea level 96 (Moore, 1991). A reef of thrombolytic microbialites persists for around 6 km along the north-97 eastern shoreline extending up to 120 m into the lake (Burne and Moore, 1993). The 98 thrombolite macro-morphology varies shoreward, from discrete domal and conical structures 99 up to a metre in height, to tabular and coalesced structures with reduced topography (Figure 100 1b).…”

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“…The 98 thrombolite macro-morphology varies shoreward, from discrete domal and conical structures 99 up to a metre in height, to tabular and coalesced structures with reduced topography (Figure 100 1b). Upward growth is restricted by sub-aerial exposure (Burne and Moore, 1993). The oldest 101 parts of the thrombolite reef have been dated at 1950 years BP (Moore and Burne 1994), and 102 Lake Clifton is underlain by sediments of marine origin, the youngest of which are dated at 103 4,670-3,890 years BP (Coshell and Rosen, 1994).…”

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Biodiversity of Living, Non-marine, Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia

Gleeson

Wacey

Waite

et al. 2016

Geomicrobiology Journal

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Biodiversity of Living, Non-marine, Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia

Gleeson

Wacey

Waite

et al. 2016

Geomicrobiology Journal

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“…Hence the observation in ancient stromatolites, such as observed in the HoytLimestone, thatcalciteand dolomite in the stromatolites are interlaminated, with calcite probably forming at the expense of aragonite and dolomite forming from highmagnesian calcite. However Burne(1995)pointedout thatin modem settings, while some cyanobacteria may provide a substitute for mineralization, no microbiological evidence exists to support the view that cyanobacteria are capable of secreting carbonate minerals. Yet sediment-binding by cementation, i.e.…”

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“…Early descriptions of thesestromatolites include thoseof Cushing andRuedemann (1914) and Goldring (1937Goldring ( , 1938. Burne and Moore (1993) The stromatolites ("layered stones") were constructed by microscopic cyanobacteria, formerly known as "blue-green algae", ona shallow epeiric seafloor, when NewYorkandthe eastern UnitedStates laysouthof theequator. Theyrepresent the activities of organisms that generated the earth's first abundant oxygen.…”

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Late Cambrian cabbage-head stromatolites from Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

Friedman

2000

Carbonates Evaporites

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SaratogaSprings, New York,is the site of one of the finestexamplesof domed stromatolites to be seen anywherein ancient rocks and is significantin the history of geology as the area where stromatolites were first described and interpreted. These cabbage-head structures,which arepart of the Hoyt Limestone of Late Cambrian(LateFranconianto Early Trempeleauan) age, were describedby James Hall as early as 1847. Glaciated surfaces expose horizontal sections of the cabbage-shaped heads composed of vertically stacked, hemisphericalstromatolites. The microbialheads are discretedomalstructures built of hemispheroidal and bulbousstromatolitesexpanding upward from a base. The heads, many of themcompound, are circularin horizontalsection, and range in diameter from a few centimeters to a meter. Between the heads are ooids, skeletal fragments of trilobites, brachiopods, pelecypods, and quartz-sandparticles.The earliest reference to stromatolitesin this area was that of Steele (1825) whose descriptionincluded the first reported oolitic limestone in North Americaamong which the stromatolites occur. The depositional environmentwas that of a peritidalsetting involvingoolite shoals, lagoons, and intertidal flats.

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“…The Russian school initiated by Maslow even proposes the Linnean binomial classification of Precambrian stromatolites for biostratigraphical purposes (e.g., Semikhatov, 1976). This classification is still in use for stromatolites that were thought to represent organisms (e.g., Burne and Moore, 1993). On the other hand, a highly detailed morphological classification was established by Hofman (1994).…”

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Translation of energy into morphology: Simulation of stromatolite morphospace using a stochastic model

Dupraz

Pattisina

Verrecchia

2006

Sedimentary Geology

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Stromatolites are examples of an iterative system involving radiate accretive growth of microbial mats, biofilm and/or minerals that result from interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic factors, which progressively shape the final morphology. These interactions can neither be easily described by simple mathematical equations, nor by simple physical laws or chemical reactions. Therefore, a holistic approach that will reduce the system to a set of variables (which are combinations of natural variables) is proposed in order to create virtual morphologies which will be compared with their natural counterparts. The combination of both Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) and cellular automata (CA) allows the exploration of the stromatolite morphological space and a representation of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors responsible for natural stromatolite morphogenesis. The holistic approach provides a translation in simple parameters of (1) the way that energy, nutrients and sedimentary particles reach the active surface of a future build-up, (2) how these elements are distributed and used in order to create morphology, and (3) how simple environmental parameters, such as sedimentation, can disturb morphogenesis. In addition, most Precambrian stromatolite morphologies that are impossible to produce with numerical modeling such as the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation can be simulated with the DLA-CA model and this, with a minimum set of variables.

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Microatoll microbialites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: Morphological analogues ofCryptozoön proliferum Hall, the first formally-named stromatolite

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Biodiversity of Living, Non-marine, Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia

Biodiversity of Living, Non-marine, Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia

Late Cambrian cabbage-head stromatolites from Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

Translation of energy into morphology: Simulation of stromatolite morphospace using a stochastic model

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