“…While the microbial mat structures from siliciclastics was reported from 3.48 Ga siliciclastics of the Dresser Formation, Pilbara in Australia (Noffke et al, 2013), the 1.8 Ga palaeodesert deposits of the Waterberg Group in South Africa recorded the oldest continental example (Eriksson et al, 2000). Increasing numbers of MRS have been described in recent years from some Precambrian basins of India ( Fig.1) including Vindhyan basin (Sarkar et al, 2005(Sarkar et al, , 2006(Sarkar et al, , 2014Banerjee and Jeevankumar, 2005;Banerjee et al, 2010Banerjee et al, , 2014, Chhattisgarh (Chakraborty et al, 2010;Sarkar et al 2014), Cuddapah (Chakrabarti andShome, 2010, Pranhita (Deb et al, 2007) and Marwar (Sarkar et al, 2008;Samanta et al, 2011Samanta et al, , 2015Kumar and Ahmad, 2016;Pandey and Sharma, 2018). Authors investigate microbial matoriginated structures within siliciclastic sedimentary succession from several Proterozoic basins of India and highlight the influence of microbial mat on sequence building pattern and sedimentation dynamics of Precambrian sedimentary succession.…”