[HTML][HTML] Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: a geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

NS Davies, AG Liu, MR Gibling, RF Miller - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The rock record contains a rich variety of sedimentary surface textures on siliciclastic
sandstone, siltstone and mudstone bedding planes. In recent years, an increasing number …

Field and laboratory tests for recognition of Ediacaran paleosols

GJ Retallack - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Not a single paleosol had been described from rocks of Ediacaran age until 2011, but 354
Ediacaran paleosols have been described by 20 different authors since then. Some of these …

True substrates: the exceptional resolution and unexceptional preservation of deep time snapshots on bedding surfaces

NS Davies, AP Shillito - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rock outcrops of the sedimentary–stratigraphic record often reveal bedding planes that can
be considered to be true substrates: preserved surfaces that demonstrably existed at the …

Dickinsonia discovered in India and late Ediacaran biogeography

GJ Retallack, NA Matthews, S Master, RG Khangar… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
The discovery of Dickinsonia in India allows assessment of biogeographic provinces and
plate tectonic reconstructions for the late Ediacaran. The fossils were found in the roof of …

[HTML][HTML] What happens between depositional events, stays between depositional events: the significance of organic mat surfaces in the capture of Ediacara …

ML Droser, SD Evans, LG Tarhan… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the absence of complex, bioturbating organisms, the seafloor during the Precambrian was
covered in widespread organic matgrounds. The greatest diversity and complexity of organic …

[HTML][HTML] Incomplete but intricately detailed: the inevitable preservation of true substrates in a time-deficient stratigraphic record

NS Davies, AP Shillito - Geology, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
True substrates are defined as sedimentary bedding planes that demonstrably existed at the
sediment-water or sediment-air interface at the time of deposition, as evidenced by features …

Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) from the Ediacaran Jodhpur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, western Rajasthan

S Kumar, S Ahmad - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Fourteen microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) have been described from the
middle part of the Jodhpur Sandstone. They have been subdivided under three headings;(A) …

Biotic vs abiotic origin of unusual features from Mesoproterozoic of Vindhyan Supergroup, India

A Choudhuri, A El Albani, S Mandal, S Sarkar - Annales de Paléontologie, 2023 - Elsevier
Biogenic signatures in Precambrian rocks are often difficult to confirm and debatable. We
present some unusual features associated with microbial-mat related structures (MRS) from …

Microbial mat records in siliciclastic rocks: examples from four Indian Proterozoic basins and their modern equivalents in Gulf of Cambay

S Sarkar, S Banerjee, P Samanta… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial mat-related structures (MRS) in siliciclastics have been investigated from four
Proterozic formations in India, namely the Marwar Supergroup, the Vindhyan Supergroup …

[HTML][HTML] Ediacaran life close to land: Coastal and shoreface habitats of the Ediacaran macrobiota, the Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia

WJ McMahon, AG Liu, BH Tindal… - Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia hosts some of the world's most
diverse Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages, with many of the constituent taxa interpreted as …