Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Department of Geology
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
A book entitled: Atlas of Microbial Mat Features preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record edited by J. Schieber, P.K. Bose, P.G. Eriksson (UP), S. Banerjee, S. Sarkar, W. Altermann (Hon. Prof. UP) and O. Catuneanu (Elsevier, 2007, 311 pp.) was published. This is the first comprehensive description and interpretation of all known features within the clastic rock record which are ascribed to an origin directly or indirectly through the presence and activity of microbial mats. Within the Precambrian geological time period, encompassing about 80-85 % of the rock record on Earth, microbial and bacterial organisms would have dominated life on the planet – their direct remains are extremely limited (and controversial) but they have, through a large number of proxies, left a relatively extensive record of microbial mat features within both chemical and clastic sediments. This book examined the less well known clastic record of these features.
Contact person: Prof PG Eriksson.
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