Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites

Conical stromatolites are thought to be robust indicators of the presence of photosynthetic and phototactic microbes in aquatic environments as early as 3.5 billion years ago. However, phototaxis alone cannot explain the ubiquity of disrupted, curled, and contorted laminae in the crests of many Meso...

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Main Authors: Petroff, Alexander Peter, Sim, Min Sub, Liang, Biqing, Bosak, Tanja
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52523
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5179-5323