Microbial euendolithic assemblages and microborings in intertidal and shallow marine habitats: Insight in cyanobacterial speciation

Abstract

The term "stromatolite" was coined by Kalkowsky (1908) while describing coastal paleoenvironments of a Lower Triassic (Buntsandstein) epicontinental sea. Stable, finely laminated structures appeared together with massive deposits of shoaling ooid sands, and later consolidated into rocks ("Stromatolith und Oolith"). © 2011 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.