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 …

Mesoproterozoic Era was an important time for initial diversification of eukaryotic clades and
appearance of the earliest complex cell morphologies. Shales and siltstones of the Ruyang …

Sedimentary records of the North China Craton (NCC) between 1.8–0.8 Ga are
indispensable for studying the evolution of the Earth's surface ecosystem in the middle …

Enhanced continental phosphorus input into the ocean has been suggested as a potential
trigger for the transient oxygenation events during the mid‐Proterozoic; however, the …

The so called “boring billion”(1800–800 Ma) of Late Paleoproterozoic and early
Mesoproterozoic time can now be reassessed from the evidence of diverse paleosols in the …

Micro‐organisms producing microbially induced sedimentary structures, particularly
epibenthic cyanobacteria, are not facies‐dependent and could flourish in any environment if …

The stratigraphic architecture, changes of depositional systems in lateral and vertical extent,
and 3D-stacking pattern of second-and third-order sequences of the Cambrian successions …

Early evolved microbial communities characterized the initial biological invasion of
Precambrian continental landscapes. In modern arid settings, microbial mats and biological …

This paper explores microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) preserved in Late
Paleozoic Ice Age deposits to evaluate the potential microbe-substrate physical interactions …

A stretch of the modern hypersaline coastal plain of the Gulf of Cambay was chosen to
examine the distribution of the microbial mat-related structures (MRS) on siliciclastic …