It is often acknowledged that the search for life on Mars might produce false positive results,
particularly via the detection of objects, patterns or substances that resemble the products of …

Abstract The “Dolomite Problem” has been a controversy for over a century, owing to
massive assemblages of low-temperature dolomite in ancient rocks with little dolomite …

Carbonate margins are records of the palaeoclimatology, palaeoceanography and
palaeogeography of continental shelves, and their study can help identify both regional and …

Coastal Sabkhas are mudflats found in arid coastal regions that are located within the
supratidal zone when high rates of evaporation lead to high salinity. While evaporitic …

The involvement of microorganisms in carbonate minerals and modern dolomite formation in
evaporitic environments occupied with microbial mats (ie, sabkha) and in mangrove forests …

Abstract The Plio-Pleistocene evaporitic lacustrine succession in the Qaidam Basin, which
was recovered by drill core SG-1, provides the material for understanding the maturation of …

The origin of dolomite–a common mineral in the geological record–is the subject of an
ongoing debate. Among different hypotheses, it has been proposed that extracellular …

The widespread occurrence of dolostones in Paleozoic and Precambrian sequences stands
in stark contrast to the difficulty of precipitating dolomite in experiments at low temperature …

Sabkhas are hypersaline, mineral-rich, supratidal mudflats that harbor microbes that are
adapted to high salt concentration. Sabkha microbial diversity is generally studied for their …

The “dolomite problem” is the product of two distinct observations. First, there are massive
amounts of ancient marine limestone (CaCO3) deposits that have been replaced by the …