Gram-positive spore-forming sulfate reducers and particularly members of the genus
Desulfotomaculum are commonly found in the subsurface biosphere by culture based and …

After the Elatina glaciation of Snowball Earth, at least four distinct glacial advances and sea-
level retreats punctuated Ediacaran time: Gaskiers glaciation (580 Ma), Fauquier glaciation …

The Pilbara craton of northwestern Australia is known for what were, when reported, the
oldest known microfossils and paleosols on Earth. Both interpretations are mired in …

Major hydrocarbon accumulations occur in traps associated with salt domes. Whereas some
of these hydrocarbons remain to be extracted for economic use, significant amounts have …

Seafloor methane seepage is a significant source of carbon in the marine environment. The
processes and temporal patterns of seafloor methane seepage over multi-million-year time …

The depositional and diagenetic processes involved in the formation of carbonates in the
evaporitic environment of the Messinian Salinity Crisis are investigated in Southern Italy …

Abstract The Calcare di Base is a carbonate/evaporitic unit formed before the deposition of
the massive halite bodies in the main depozones of the Mediterranean region, and has been …

The climatic and environmental history of the SW Iberian Peninsula is explored to fill in the
gap of continental palaeoclimate data by a high-resolution study of Lake Medina sediments …

The seven Messinian microbial carbonate-rich layers crop** out in the Pollenzo section
(Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy) are interbedded with a precession-related cyclic …

Not a single paleosol had been described from rocks of Ediacaran age until 2011, but 354
Ediacaran paleosols have been described by 20 different authors since then. Some of these …