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Microbial Euendolithic Assemblages and Microborings in Intertidal and Shallow Marine Habitats: Insight in Cyanobacterial Speciation

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The term “stromatolite” was coined by Kalkowsky (1908) while describing coastal paleoenvironments of a Lower Triassic (Buntsandstein) epicontinental sea. Stable, finely laminated structures appeared together with massive deposits of shoaling ooid sands, and later consolidated into rocks (“Stromatolith und Oolith”).

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The international and interdisciplinary cooperation has been supported by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and by the Hanse Institute for Advanced Research. We thank Prof. Dr. J. Reitner (Univ. Göttingen) for support during the International Kalkowsky Symposium in 2008 and Dr. R.P. Reid (Univ. Miami) for stimulating discussions regarding endoliths and stromatolites.

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Radtke, G., Golubic, S. (2011). Microbial Euendolithic Assemblages and Microborings in Intertidal and Shallow Marine Habitats: Insight in Cyanobacterial Speciation. In: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_16

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