Links Between Geological Processes, Microbial Activities & Evolution of Life

• Oceanic Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites as Habitats for Microbial Life Through Time – A Review.- Microbial Colonization of Various Habitable Niches During Alteration of Oceanic Crust.- Ambient Inclusion Trails: Their Recognition, Age Range and Applicability to Early Life on Earth.- Spatial Distribution of the Subseafloor Life: Diversity and Biogeography.- Analysis of Deep Subsurface Microbial Communities by Functional Genes andGenomics.- Diversity of Bahamian Microbialite Substrates.- Evaporite Microbial Films, Mats, Microbialites and Stromatolites.- Microbial Life in Extreme Environments: Linking Geological and Microbiological Processes.- Marine Methane Biogeochemistry of the Black Sea: A Review.- From Volcanic Winter to Snowball Earth: An Alternative Explanation for Neoproterozoic Biosphere Stress.

From the reviews: "This compilation of review papers authored by prominent researchers in this field is the result of a Symposium held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in 2006. It is a contemporary, provocative, and very aesthetic manuscript covering a wide range of topics and accompanied by an extraordinary number of high-quality colored figures. ... The book is generally well written ... . Undoubtedly, this book should be very useful to researchers interested in the field of turbulence." (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 167, 2010)