Putative microbialites are commonly regarded to have formed in association with
photosynthetic microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria. However, many modern microbial …

Areas of the seafloor enriched with seeping fluids host unique chemosynthetic communities,
and their interactions not only linked to the presence of oil and gas resources, but directly …

This chapter summarizes information about ancient hydrocarbon seeps from around the
world. The information is organized into two tables, one comprising both Americas and …

One of the main limitations to understanding the evolutionary history of hydrothermal vent
and cold seep communities is the identification of tube fossils from ancient deposits. Tube …

The Pliocene cold‐seep carbonate of the Crotone Basin (South Italy) represents a key site
for dimension, outcropping exposure and quality. These deposits form a large carbonate …

Bivalves are an important part of the methane seep fauna ever since seeps appeared in the
geologic record. The chronostratigraphic ranges of seep-inhabiting chemosymbiotic …

This paper discusses the nature and origin of subsurface sediment mobilization processes
in deep marine clay-rich environments. In the studied area of the southern Barbados …

Six Cretaceous methane-seep deposits are reported from the Raukumara Peninsula,
eastern North Island, New Zealand. Dinoflagellate dating indicates a Late Albian to mid …

A fauna of provannid and provannid-like shells is described from Upper Cretaceous seep
carbonates in Hokkaido, Japan. We describe two new provannid species, Provanna …

Brachiopods were thought to have dominated deep-sea hydrothermal vents and
hydrocarbon seeps for most of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, and were believed to have …