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David Attenborough began his extraordinary tv series, The Living Planet at Shark Bay in Australia's northwest, because crossing the low dunes and descending to the beach is like slipping billions of years back in time. Where the waves gently break on the shore are stromatolites, rising like rows of concrete cauliflowers from the ocean. While they may look like inanimate rocks, examining a piece from the surface under a powerful microscope shows that it is teeming with life. Stromatolites are complex domes or columns of sediment formed by microbiological communities. These 'living rocks', as th

Stromatolites --- Cyanobacteria --- Bacteria, Blue-green --- Blue-green algae --- Blue-green bacteria --- Blue-greens (Microorganisms) --- Cryptophyceae --- Cyanochloronta --- Cyanophyceae --- Cyanophycota --- Cyanophyta --- Myxophyceae --- Myxophyta --- Phycochromophyceae --- Schizophyceae --- Prokaryotes --- Algae, Fossil calcareous --- Algal stromatolites --- Calcareous algae, Fossil --- Callenia --- Collenia --- Cryptozoon --- Fossil calcareous algae --- Gymnosolen --- Stromatoliths --- Sedimentary structures

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Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Stromatolites and microbialites are interpreted as biosedimentological remains of biofilms and microbial mats. These structures are important environmental and evolutionary archives which give us information about ancient habitats, biodiversity, and evolution of complex benthic ecosystems. However, many geobiological aspects of these structures are still unknown or only poorly understood. The present proceedings highlight the new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites presented at the occasion of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Göttingen, Germany.

Stromatolites --- Geobiology --- Geology --- Biology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Paleobotany --- Stromatolites. --- Geobiology. --- Algae, Fossil calcareous --- Algal stromatolites --- Calcareous algae, Fossil --- Callenia --- Collenia --- Cryptozoon --- Fossil calcareous algae --- Gymnosolen --- Stromatoliths --- Earth sciences. --- Microbial ecology. --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Biogeosciences. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Sedimentary structures --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Kalkowsky, Ernst Louis,