2009
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2008.0290
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Development of Lower Triassic Wrinkle Structures: Implications for the Search for Life on Other Planets

Abstract: Wrinkle structures are microbially mediated sedimentary structures that are a common feature of Proterozoic and earliest Phanerozoic siliciclastic seafloors on Earth and occur only rarely in post-Cambrian strata. These macroscopic microbially induced sedimentary structures are readily identifiable at the outcrop scale, and their recognition on other planetary bodies by landed missions may suggest the presence of past microbial life. Wrinkle structures of the Lower Triassic (Spathian) Virgin Limestone Member of… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
3
1
1

Citation Types

0
18
0

Year Published

2011
2011
2019
2019

Publication Types

Select...
7

Relationship

0
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 22 publications
(18 citation statements)
references
References 54 publications
0
18
0
Order By: Relevance
“…(2007); 17 = Kershaw et al. (2007); 18 = Woods & Baud (2008); 19 = Mata & Bottjer (2009a,b); 20 = Kershaw et al. (2011); 21 = Mata & Bottjer (2011).…”
Section: End‐permianmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 3 more Smart Citations
“…(2007); 17 = Kershaw et al. (2007); 18 = Woods & Baud (2008); 19 = Mata & Bottjer (2009a,b); 20 = Kershaw et al. (2011); 21 = Mata & Bottjer (2011).…”
Section: End‐permianmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7A; Pruss et al. , 2004; Mata & Bottjer, 2009a,b, 2011). The Spathian upper member of the Thaynes Formation of northern Utah, USA, also displays wrinkle structures on proximal sandy tempestites, as well as across marine flooding surfaces (Fig.…”
Section: End‐permianmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…Luo et al, 2014;Tu et al, 2016). Of all microbialites, stromatolites and MISS are the most common forms (Noffke et al, 2003;Mata and Bottjer, 2009a;Noffke and Awramik, 2013). Stromatolites form primarily in carbonate-dominated environments, whereas MISS occur mainly in siliciclastic settings, where translucent and clean quartz sands deposit (Noffke et al, 2003;Mata and Bottjer, 2009b).…”
Section: Possible Relation With the Microbial Proliferation As Observmentioning
confidence: 99%