This meeting will shed new light on the important roles that microbial life plays in controlling how sediments erode, transport, precipitate
Even in settings where biological processes have long been recognised, for example in marine carbonates, focus has been almost entirely on metazoans. This is curious, because microbial communities since the Pre-Cambrian, have suffused all sedimentary environments on Earth, and at least half global biomass is prokaryotic. Are all these microbes simply bystanders? Recent research has hinted that they are key agents in controlling an impressive range of processes and products in sedimentology, bringing the fields of microbe palaeontology and bio-sedimentology into intimate alignment. The implications are fundamental, and pose the question “are large-scale sedimentological features actually microbial trace fossils?”.The meeting will explore whether microbial processes can leave signatures in sedimentary deposits that prove life was there, despite the fact that the majority of global biomass has nearly zero preservation potential. Ultimately, we will lift the lid on the exciting field of sedimentary geobiology as we collectively work towards a new paradigm of microbial sedimentology.
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Venue: The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG
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Fellow/JCP Member: GBP 50 Non Fellow/Non JCP Member: GBP 100 Student - Non Fellow/Non JCP Member: GBP 20 Retired: GBP 50
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