Poster sessions
► Microbialites in modern freshwater environments
A newly described biomineralization process shared by numerous species?
Inès Segovia Campos, Agathe Martignier, Kilian Pollok, Falko Langenhorst, Jean-Michel Jaquet, Montserrat Filella, François Barja, Michael Melkonian and Daniel Artiztegui
Pleistocene carbonate buildups of Maquinchao Basin (North Patagonia)
Inès Eymard, María P. Alvarez, Andrés Bilmes, Crisogono Vasconcelos and Daniel Artiztegui
Carbonated system and stromatolites of Saint Pierre-Livron, Tarn-Et-Garonne (France)
Céline Lamérand, Liudmila Shirokova, Pascale Bénézeth and Oleg Pokrovsky
Lacustrine freshwater microbialites: a case study from Lake Sevan (Armenia, lesser Caucasus)
Claude Colombié, Sébastien Joannin, Agathe Martignier, Mathieu Schuster, lilit Sahakyan and Edwige Pons-Branchu
The role of the substrate on the mineralization potential of microbial mats in a modern freshwater river (Paris Basin, France)
Adeline Roche, Emmanuelle Vennin, Irina Bundeleva, Anthony Bouton, Dahédrey Payandi-Rolland, Philippe Amiotte-Suchet, Éric. C Gaucher, Hélène Courvoisierand Pieter T. Visscher
Living in an Anoxic World: Arsenic and Sulfur Cycling Support Lithification of Microbial Mats
Pieter T. Visscher, Anthony Bouton, Kimberley L. Gallagher, Andrea Somogyi, Maria E. Farías, Manuel Contreras, Pascal Phillipot and Christophe Dupraz
► Microbialites in modern Hypersaline environments
Microbialites in modern hypersaline environments Modern Microbialites of Pozo Bravo Lake: a new deposit in the Argentine Puna (Catamarca province)
Augustina I. Lencina, Mariana N. Soria, Fernando J. Gómez and Maria E. Farías
Microbial mats and carbonates in modern and ancient saline-alkaline lakes of the Iberian Peninsula
Connor Doyle, Stefan Schroeder and Juan Pablo Corella
Carbonate Deposits from Sabkha Oum Dba (Western Sahara, Morocco) : Facies, Processes and Comparison with Present-Day Environment
Patricio G. Villafañe, Augustina I. Lencina, Leonardo Fadel Cury and Maria E. Farías
New different Modern Microbialites deposits in Puna of Catamarca, Argentine
Mariana N. Soria, Augustina I. Lencina, Luis A. Saona, Tatiana M. Stepanenko, María F. Colla and Maria E. Farías
Carbonate Deposits from Sabkha Oum Dba (Western Sahara, Morocco) : Facies, Processes and Comparison with Present-Day Environment
Marlisa Martinho de Brito, Robert Barbieri, Barbara Cavalazzi and Eduardo I. Alves
Abiotic and biotic controls on the structure and mineralogy of microbialites of the Pastos Grandes laguna (Bolivia)
Cédric Bougeault, Emmanuelle Vennin, Christophe Durlet, Elodie Muller, Mathilde Mercuzot, Emmanuelle Gérard, Magali Ader, Aurélien Virgone and Éric C. Gaucher
Comparative study of Carbonate Microbialites and associated Microbial Mats of the hypersaline Laguna Negra lake, Argentinean Andes
Flavia J. Boidi, Fernando J. Gómez, Alexander S. Bradley and Maria E. Farías
The origin and significance of gypsum deposits in a hypersaline rift lake (Lake Afdera, Afar, Ethiopia)
Eva De Boever, Anneleen Foubert, Valentin Rime, Patrizia Wyler, Jean- Charles Schaegis, H. Addis, Haileyesus Negga, Atnafu Balemwal, Torsten Vennemann and Tesfaye Kidane
► Modeling studies of and approaches towards understandings microbial deposits
From marine microbialites to hypersaline stromatolites: insights into their spatial heterogeneity through micro-CT scanning techniques
Anneleen Foubert, David Jaramillo-Vogel, Daniel Birgel, Haileyesus Negga and Juan Carlos Braga
The biochemistry of EPS from the cyanobacterial strain synechococcus pcc 7942 in the context of calcium carbonate precipitation
Irina Bundeleva, Isabelle Zeigler-Devin, Nicolas Brosse and Frédéric Marin
Prediction of the calcium carbonate budget in a sedimentary basin: A “source-to-sink” approach applied to Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Anthony Bouton, Emmanuelle Vennin, Philippe Amiotte-Suchet, Christophe Thomazo, Jean-Pierre Sizun, Aurélien Virgone, Éric C. Gaucher and Pieter T. Visscher
Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Biosignatures of the Archean Continental Biosphere: A Comparison with Modern Analogs
Christophe Thomazo, Estelle Couradeau, Ana Maria Giraldo-Silva, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Arnaud Brayard, Martin Homann, Pierre Sansjofre, Stefan V. Lalonde and Ferran Garcia-Pichel
Microbially mediated YREE-enriched manganese deposit in the Ytterby mine, Sweden
Susanne Sjöberg and Christophe Dupraz
► Microbialites in the fossil record
Biotic and abiotic signatures in the freshwater carbonates, Early Jurassic Kota limestone, India
Suparna Goswami and Parthasarathi Ghosh
Characterization and distribution of the microbialites within lacustrine series: The example of the Maastrichtian-Danian Yacoraite Fm, Salta Basin, Argentina
Youri Hamon, Sébastien Rohais, Rémy Deschamps and Marta Gasparrini
A paired carbon isotope investigation of the 2.94 Ga Red Lake stromatolitic carbonate platform, Ontario, Canada
Pierre Sansjofre, Philip Fralick, Martin Homann, Munira Afroz, the Earthbloom team and Stefan V. Lalonde
Did the primitive biosphere really drive global carbon isotope excursions in deep time? A re-examination of the carbon isotope lever hypothesis
Stefan V. Lalonde and Pierre Sansjofre
Early Triassic continuous proliferation of microbial deposits
Emmanuelle Vennin, Anthony Bouton, Gwenaël Caravaca, Nicolas Olivier, Christophe Thomazo and Arnaud Brayard
How much time did it take a stromatolite to grow? Limagne basin, Massif central, France
Aurélia Wattine, Emmanuelle Vennin, Christophe Lécuyer, André Nel and Dario de Francesci
Organic and inorganic isotopic signatures in basal Triassic microbialites from South China
Pierre-Yves Collin, Jean Lévêque, Anne-Lise Santoni, Théophile Coquerez, Ludovic Bruneau and Sylvie Crasquin