Geobiology is an emergent discipline in which the principles and tools of biology are applied to studies of the Earth. How life began, how it evolved, and how environmental conditions have influenced these processes are ...

In this paper, we report the presence of sedimentary microbial ecosystems in wetlands of the Salar de Atacama. These laminated systems, which bind, trap and precipitate mineral include: microbial mats at Laguna Tebenquiche ...

The Atacama Desert has extreme environmental conditions that allow the development of unique microbial communities. The present paper reports the bacterial diversity of microbial mats and sediments and its mineralogical ...

Reticulate patterns often found in siliciclastic rocks as wrinkle structures may have been associated with or the product of biological activity. They are also present in modern environments, and laboratory experiments ...

© 2007 - 2018 Frontiers Media S.A. All Rights Reserved. Composition, carbon and nitrogen uptake, and gene transcription of microbial mat communities in Porcelana neutral hot spring (Northern Chilean Patagonia) were analyzed ...