35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA


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35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Evolution of the Biosphere and Biogeoscience

Paper Title Presenting Author Names
Preservation of life across ocean anoxic events Prof. KLITI GRICE
Morphological and mineralogical biosignatures of anoxygenic photosynthetic benthic microbial communities Dr. Tanja Bosak
Microbialite development in Quaternary reefs : the nature of the problem Dr. Gilbert Camoin
Geobiology of an early Archean microbial mat facies (Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia) Dr. Jan-Peter Duda
Growth, preservation, and biological implications of cuspate microbial forms: Mesoproterozoic Dismal Lakes Group, Arctic Canada Dr. Linda Kah
High-resolution trace metal analysis of a stromatolite deposited during the end-Triassic extinction event. Dr. Victoria Petryshyn
Microbial Carbonates in Time and Space: Challenges and Opportunities Dr. Robert Riding
Textural and geochemical characteristics, and process of formation, of ooids in the Mesoarchaean Pongola Supergroup, South Africa Ms. Mehrnaz Siahi
The effects of sedimentation on modern microbial mats in Antarctic lakes Dr. Dawn Sumner
The first record of Stromatolites in the Singhbhum Group of rocks from Chandil area, Jharkhand, India implication for biostratigraphic correlation. "Mr. Apurba Banerjee Mr. K RAJA C"
Ediacaran stromatolite variety of Sete Lagoas Formation, Bambuí Group, Brazil Dr. Evelyn A. M. Sanchez
Geochemical and mineralogical microbial signatures recorded within the condensed deposits of the Middle-Upper Jurassic transition on the Romanian territory dr. Lucian Petrescu
Petrophysical and Geochemical Variations Related to Stromatolite Dissolution Sr. João Victor D. Alcantara
Could environmental conditions play important role in carbonate facies formation? A reappraisal based on new bio-geochemical approach in modern microbialites from Japan. Mr. Rafael França Mattos
Large stromatolites around the K-P boundary in northern Patagonia, Argentina Dr. Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Microbial records in neoproterozoic carbonatic rocks from southern Brazil. Dr. Leonardo Cury
Daily lamination formed by sulfur oxidizing bacteria and chloroflexus in a hot spring stromatolite Dr. Tomoyo Okumura
Discovery of a new phosphorite ore-bearing strata and stromatolite phosphorites of Dengying Formation of Late Ediacaran in Guizhou Province, SW China Dr. Haili Ren
Unusual very positive enrichment of 13C in carbonate sediments deposited in modern hypersaline environment, Lagoa Salgada, Brazil: Indicator of salinity controlled metabolic processes Dr. Crisogono Vasconcelos
New occurrences of Permian stromatolites near Purros and Orupembe, Kunene Region, NW Namibia Ms. Aimée Barroso
Paleoecology and Eukaryotes Influences in Development of Microbialites in Brazil Ms. Flavia Callefo
The molybdenum isotope composition of modern and ancient stromatolites Ms. Marie Thoby
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