“…Microbially induced sedimentary structures are preserved and exceptionally well-studied in the modern Pilot Valley Basin, Utah, and on geologic timescales in the ancient Strelley Pool Chert stromatolites and Dresser Formation microbialites of the Archean-aged Pilbara Craton (Van Kranendonk et al 2003 ; Allwood, et al, 2006 ; Noffke et al, 2013 ; Russell et al, 2014 ; Lynch et al, 2015 ; Westall et al, 2015b ; Lindsay et al, 2017 ). Likewise, microbially induced sedimentary structures can be found in most aquatic environments, both marine and lacustrine, including tidal flats, lagoons, riverbeds, dunes, and sabkhas (see Noffke et al, 2001 ; Bose and Chafetz, 2012 ; Noffke et al, 2013 , and references therein).…”