Lithification of pelletal grains by microbially mediated organomineralization

MR Diaz, K Bergman, PK Swart, GP Eberli - Sedimentary Geology, 2025 - Elsevier
Fecal pellets are key components of the biological carbon pump and a source of nutrients.
When cohesively bound and cemented, they become the most abundant non-skeletal grains …

[HTML][HTML] Organic matter binding detrital grains contributing to ooid formation and small shelly fossil preservation, a case from the middle Cambrian, southern North …

Y Hu, TP Topper, J Zhou, Z Wang, B Pan, Y Liang… - Sedimentary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Siliciclastic grains, characterized by concentrated Al, Si, K and other elements, are typical
components of ooids, but their distribution and contribution to ooid formation are uncertain …

Lake level fluctuation controls the formation, types, and abundance of coated grains in hypersaline lakes: a case study from Urmia Lake (NW Iran)

G Ertunç, A Mohammadi, A Çiner… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The hypersaline Urmia Lake in NW Iran offers unique sedimentary
environments sensitive to climate and environmental shifts, fostering coated grain formation …

Organic matter influence on ooid formation: New insights into classic examples (Great Salt Lake, USA; Triassic Germanic Basin, Germany)

Y Pei, P Suarez‐Gonzalez, JP Duda… - Sedimentology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ooids are coated grains composed of a tangential or radial cortex growing around a
nucleus. They are common in carbonate deposits of almost any geological age and provide …

Microbe-mineral interactions in the microstromatolitic crusts of the lacustrine chimneys and volcanic bedrock of Lake Abhe, Republic of Djibouti

VAC Dorneles, K Hickman-Lewis… - Bollettino della …, 2024 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
Utilising a multi-analytical approach, we investigated centimetre-scale domical and tabular
microstromatolitic encrustations from Lake Abhe, a hyperalkaline and hypersaline …

The Holocene Great Salt Lake and Pleistocene Lake Bonneville System: Conserving our Geoheritage for Future Generations

M Chan, C Oviatt, B Baxter, B Tikoff, G Atwood - Geosites, 2024 - giw.utahgeology.org
Abstract The modern (Holocene-age) Great Salt Lake (GSL) and Pleistocene Lake
Bonneville of the Bonneville Basin (BB) together make a geosite (GSL-BB system) of …