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Publications
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Awramik, S. M., 1971. Precambrian columnar stromatolite diversity: reflection
of metazoan appearance. Science, 1974:825-827. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., Logan, B. W.. MacGregor, A. R Playford, P. E.. Rezak,
R Von der Borch, C. C. and Walter, M. R. 1975. Conservation of Hamelin
Pool, Western Australia. Department of Environmental Protection Publication,
Western Australia, 21 pp. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1976. Gunflint stromatolites: microfossil distribution
in relation to stromatolite morphology. In: Stromatolites, M. R. Walter
(Ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 311-320. |
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Awramik, S. M., Margulis L. and Barghoorn, E. S. 1976. Evolutionary processes
in the formation of stromatolites. In: Stromatolites, M. R. Walter (Ed.),
Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 149-162. |
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Awramik, S. M, 1976. Selective subject index to the bibliography. In:
Stromatolites, M. R. Walter (Ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 697-704. |
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Awramik, S. M., Hofmann H. J. and Raaben, M. E. 1976. Bibliography. In:
Stromatolites, M. R. Walter (Ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 705-772. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1977. Stromatolite Newsletter. Lethaia Newsletter Presentations.
Lethaia, 10:42 |
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Awramik, S. M. Stromatolite Newsletter. No. 5, 76 pp.. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1977. Paleobiology of stromatolites. In: Chemical Evolution
of the Early Precambrian, C. Ponnamperuma (Ed.), Academic Press, New York,
p. 111-131 |
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Link, M. H., Osborne, R. H., and Awramik, S. M. 1977. Lacustrine stromatolites,
Pliocene Ridge Basin, California. In: Geological Guidebook to the Ridge
Basin. South Coast Geological Society, Tustin, Calif., p. 24-27. |
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Awramik, S. M., and Barghoorn, E. S. 1977. The Gunflint microbiota. Precambrian
Research, 5:121-142. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1977. Paleophycology. Review of Fossil Algae, Erik Flugel
(Ed.). Science, 197:1072. |
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Awramik, S. M., Gebelein, C. D., and Cloud, P. 1978. Biogeologic relationships
of ancient stromatolites and modern analogs. In: Environmental Biogeochemistry
and Geomicrobiology, W. E. Krumbein (Ed.), Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1:165-178. |
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Link, M. H., Osborne, R. H., and Awramik, S. M., 1978. Lacustrine stromatolites
and associated sediments of the Pliocene Ridge Route Formation, Ridge Basin,
California. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 48:143-158. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1978. Stromatolites with coccoid and filamentous blue-green
algae of Messinian age from site 374--Ionian Abyssal Plain. In: Initial
Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, K. Hsu, L. Montadert, et al.,
(Eds.), Washington, D.C., 42(1):665-668. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1978, Editor, Stromatolite Newsletter, No. 6, 73 pp. |
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Awramik, S. M. and Barghoorn, E. S. 1978. Bibliography of Precambrian
paleontology and paleobiology. Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard Univ.,
26(2-4):65-175. |
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Knoll, A. H., Barghoorn, E. S., and Awramik, S. M. 1978. New microorganisms
from the Aphebian Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario. Journal of Paleontology,
52(5):976-992 |
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Awramik, S. M. and Semikhatov, M. A. 1979. The relationship between morphology,
microstructure and microbiota in Gunflint stromatolites. Canadian Journal
of Earth Sciences, 16(3):484-495 |
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Knoll, A. H., Barghoorn, E. S., and Awramik, S. M. 1978. New microorganisms
from the Aphebian Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario. Journal of Paleontology,
52(5):976-992. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M. and Semikhatov, M. A. 1979. The relationship between morphology,
microstructure and microbiota in Gunflint stromatolites. Canadian Journal
of Earth Sciences, 16(3):484-495. |
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Awramik, S. M., Hofmann, H. J., Haupt, A., and Walter, M. R. 1979. Stromatolite
Bibliography - 2. Precambrian Research, 9:105-166. PDF |
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Walter, M. R. and Awramik S. M. 1979. Frutexites from stromatolites of
the Gunflint Iron Formation of Canada, and its biological affinities. Precambrian
Research, 9:22-23. PDF |
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Semikhatov, M. A., Gebelein C. D., Cloud, P., Awramik, S. M., and Benmore,
W. C. 1979. Stromatolite morphogenesis--progress and problems. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, 16(5):992-1015. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1979, Editor. Stromatolite Newsletter, No. 7, 66 pp. |
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Cloud, P., Awramik, S. M. Morrison, K., and Hadley, D. G. 1979. Earliest
Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield. Precambrian
Research, 10:73-93. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1980. Cyanobacteria and the fossil record. International
Precambrian Geology, Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources,
(1): 27-29 (in Chinese). |
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Awramik, S. M., 1980. Stromatolites and blue-green algae. International
Precambrian Geology, Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources,
(1): 29-31 (in Chinese). |
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Awramik, S. M., 1980. Blue-green algal cell degradation and the pre-Phanerozoic
fossil record. International Precambrian Geology, Tianjin Institute of
Geology and Mineral Resources, (1): 31-33 (in Chinese). |
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Awramik, S. M., 1981. The pre-Phanerozoic biosphere - three billion years
of crises and opportunities. In: M. H. (Ed.), Biotic Crises in Ecological
and Evolutionary Time. Academic Press, N.Y., pp. 83-102. |
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Knoll, A. H., Blick, N., and Awramik, S. M., 1981. Stratigraphic and
ecologic implications of late Precambrian microfossils from Utah. American
Journal of Science, 281:247-263. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1982. Biogeochemical evolution of the ocean-atmosphere
system. State of the Art Report. In: H. D. Holland and M. Schidlowski (Eds.),
Mineral Deposits and the Evolution of the Biosphere. Dahlem Konferenzen,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 309-320 |
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Awramik, S. M., 1982. The pre-Phanerozoic fossil record. In: H. D. Holland
and M. Schidlowski (Eds.), Mineral Deposits and the Evolution of the Biosphere.
Dahlem Konferenzen, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 67-82. |
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Abell, P. I., Awramik, S. M. Osborne, R. H., and Tomellini, S., 1982.
Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine stromatolites from Lake Turkana, Kenya: Morphology,
stratigraphy and stable isotopes. Sedimentary Geology, 32:1-26. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1982. The origins and early evolution of life. In: D.
G. Smith (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, p. 349-362. |
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Vanyo, J. P. and Awramik, S. M., 1982. Length of day and obliquity of
the ecliptic 850 Ma ago: preliminary results of a stromatolite growth model.
Geophysical Research Letters 9(10):1125-1128 |
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Awramik, S. M., Schopf, J. W., and Walter, M. R., 1983. Filamentous fossil
bacteria from the Archean of Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 20:357-374. PDF |
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McMenamin, D. S., Kumar, S,. and Awramik, S. M., 1983. Microbial fossils
from the Kheinjua Formation, Middle Proterozoic Semi Group (Lower Vindhyan)
in the Son Valley area of central India. Precambrian Research, 21:247-271. PDF |
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Knoll, A. H. and Awramik, S. M., 1984. Ancient microbial ecosystems.
In: W. E. Krumbein (Ed.), Microbial Geochemistry. Blackwell, Oxford, p.
287-315. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1984. Ancient stromatolites and microbial mats. In: Y.
Cohen, R. W. Castenholz, and H. O. Halvorson (Eds.), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites.
A. R. Liss, N.Y., p. 1-21. |
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Awramik, S. M., 1984. Cell (biology). McGraw-Hill 1985 Yearbook of Science
and Technology, pp. 103-105. [Article on the 3,500 Ma-old Warrawoona microfossils] |
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Awramik, S. M. and Valentine, J. W., 1985. Adaptive aspects of the origin
of eukaryotes. In: B. H. Tiffney (Ed.), Geological Factors and the Evolution
of Plants. Yale Press, New Haven, p. 11-21 |
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Vanyo, J. P. and Awramik, S. M., 1985. Stromatolites and Earth-Sun-Moon
dynamics. Precambrian Research, 29:121-142. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., McMenamin D. S., Yin Chongyu, Zhao Ziqiang, Ding Qixou,
and Zhang Shusen, 1985. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microfossils from a
Proterozoic/Phanerozoic transition in China. Nature, 315:55-658. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M, 1985. Precambrian evolution and the rock record. In: D.
Sagan (Ed.), The Global Sulfur Cycle. NASA Technical Memoir, 87570, p.
5-8. |
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Awramik, S. M. and Vanyo, J. P., 1986. Heliotropism in modern stromatolites.
Science, 231:1279-1281. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1986. The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and geochemical
perturbations. Nature, 319:696. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1986. New fossil finds in old rocks. Nature, 319:446-447. PDF |
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Vanyo, J. P., Hutchinson, R. A., and Awramik, S. M., 1986. Heliotropism
in microbial stromatolitic growths at Yellowstone National Park: geophysical
inferences. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 67: 153,155-156. |
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Margulis, L., Lopez Baluja, L., and Awramik, S. M., 1986. Community living
long before man: Fossil and living microbial mats and early life. Science
of the Total Environment, 56:379-397. |
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Awramik, S. M. and Riding, R., 1988. Role of algal eukaryotes in subtidal
columnar stromatolite formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA, 85:1327-1329. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., Schopf, J. W., and Walter, M. R., 1988. Carbonaceous
filaments from North Pole, Western Australia: Are they fossil bacteria
in Archean stromatolites? Discussion. Precambrian Research, 39:303-309. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1989. Earth's earliest fossil record: Why not look for
similar fossils on Mars. In: C. P. McKay and W. L. Davis (Eds.), Exobiology
and Future Mars Missions. NASA Conference Publications, 10027:4-5. |
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Allison, C. W.and Awramik, S. M., 1989. Organic-walled microfossils from
earliest Cambrian or latest Proterozoic Tindir Group rocks, northwest Canada.
Precambrian Research, 43:253-294. PDF |
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Chang, S.-B.R., Stolz, J. F., Kirschvink, J. L., and Awramik, S. M.,
1989. Biogenic magnetite in stromatolites: II. Occurrence in ancient sedimentary
environments. Precambrian Research, 43:305-315. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1990. Stromatolites. In: D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther
(Eds.), Palaeobiology: A Synthesis. Blackwell, Oxford, p. 336-341 |
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Griffin, K. M. and Awramik, S. M., 1990. Giant Bahamian stromatolites:
A modern analog for what? In: J. E. Mylroie (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth
Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas. CCFL Publication, San Salvador
Island, Bahamas, 99:169-175. |
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Kidder, D. L. and Awramik, S. M., 1990. Acritarchs in lower greenschist
facies argillite of the Middle Proterozoic Libby Formation, upper Belt
Supergroup, Montana. Palaios, 5:124-133. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1991. Archaean and Proterozoic stromatolites. In: R.
Riding (Ed.), Calcareous Algae and Stromatolites. Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
p. 289-304 |
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Riding, R., Awramik, S. M., Winsborough, B. M., Griffin, K. M., and Dill,
R. F., 1991. Bahamian giant stromatolites: Microbial composition of surface
mats. Geological Magazine, 128: 227-234. |
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Valentine, J. W., Awramik, S. M., Signor, P. W., and Sadler, P. M., 1991.
The biological explosion at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. Evolutionary
Biology, 25:279-356 |
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Kaufman, A. J., Knoll, A. H., and Awramik, S. M., 1992. Biostratigraphic
and chemostratigraphic correlation of Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions:
Upper Tindir Group, northwestern Canada, as a test case. Geology, 20:181-185. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1992. The history and significance of stromatolites.
In: M. Schidlowski, et al. (Eds.), Early Organic Evolution: Implications
for Mineral and Energy Resources. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 435-449 |
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Bertrand-Sarfati, J. and Awramik, S. M., 1992. The Mescal stromatolites
(Apache Group, Middle Proterozoic, central Arizona): Taxonomy, biostratigraphy,
and paleoenvironments. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 104:1138-1155. |
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Bertrand-Sarfati, J. and Awramik, S. M., 1992. The Mescal stromatolites
(Apache Group, Middle Proterozoic, central Arizona): Taxonomy, biostratigraphy,
and paleoenvironments. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 104:1138-1155. PDF |
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Awramik, S. M., 1992. The oldest records of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis
Research, 33:75-89. PDF |
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McNamara, K. J. and Awramik, S. M., 1994. Stromatolites: A key to understanding
the early evolution of life. Science Progress, 76:345-364, 1992 (published
1994). |
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Awramik, S. M., Editor, 1994. Death Valley International Stromatolite
Symposium, Laughlin, NV, p. 1 – 98. |
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Awramik, S. M., Corsetti, F. A., and Shapiro, R. S., 1994. Pre-Symposium
Excursion: Death Valley Region. Field Trip Guidebook for the Death Valley
International Stromatolite Symposium, Laughlin, NV, p. 1 – 42. |
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Humphreys, W. F., Awramik, S. M., and Jebb, M. H. P., 1995. Freshwater
biogenic tufa dams in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Royal
Society of Western Australia, 78:43-54. |
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Cohen, A.S., Talbot, M.R., Awramik, S.M., Dettman, D.L., and Abell, P.,
1997. Lake level and paleoenvironmental history of Lake Tanganyika, Africa,
as inferred from late Holocene and modern stromatolites. Bulletin of the
Geological Society of America, 109:440-460. PDF |
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Awramik, S.M. and Sprinkle, J., 1999. Proterozoic stromatolites: The
first marine evolutionary biota. Historical Biology, 13:241-253. |
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Awramik, S.M., Buchheim, H.P., Leggitt, L., and Woo, K.S., 2000. Oncoids
of the Late Pleistocene Manix Formation, Mojave Desert region, California.
San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, 47(2):25-31. |
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Awramik, S.M., Corsetti, F.A., and Shapiro, R.S., 2000. Stromatolites
and the pre-Phanerozoic to Cambrian history of the area southeast of Death
Valley. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, 47(2):65-74 |
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Corsetti, F.A., Awramik, S.M., Pierce, D., and Kaufman, A.J.,
2000. Using chemostratigraphy to correlate and calibrate unconformities
in Neoproterozoic strata from the southern Great Basin, USA. International
Geology Review, 42(6):516-533.. |
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Riding, R.E. and Awramik, S.M., Editors, 2000. Microbial
Sediments. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 331 p. |
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Shapiro, R.S. and Awramik, S.M., 2000. Microbialite morphostratigraphy
as a tool for correlating Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician sequences. Journal
of Geology, 108(2):171-180. PDF |
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Sommers, M.G., Awramik, S.M., and Woo, K.S., 2000. Evidence
for initial calcite-aragonite composition of Lower Algal Chert Member ooids
and stromatolites, Paleoproterozoic Gunflint Formation, Ontario, Canada.
Canadian Journal Earth Sciences, 37(9):1229-1243. PDF |
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Xu, Z.L. and Awramik, S.M., 2001. New microorganisms from
the Gaoyuzhuang Formation of northern Taihang Mountains, China. Acta Botanica
Sinica, 43(3):295-311. |
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Xu, Z.L. and Awramik, S.M., 2002. Gaoyuzhuang Paleobiology.
Acta Botanica Sinica, 44(5):617-627. |
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Corsetti, F.A., Shapiro, R.S., and Awramik, S.M., 2002. Proterozoic-Cambrian
of the southern Death Valley region: Microbialites, carbonate depositional
environments, and Neoproterozoic glacial strata. In: F.A Corsetti, (Ed.),
Proterozoic-Cambrian of the Great Basin and Beyond. Pacific Section of
the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 93:1-20 |
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Corsetti, F.A., Awramik, S.M., and Pierce, D., 2003. A complex
microbiota from snowball Earth times: Microfossils from the Neoproterozoic
Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, USA. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 100(8):4399-4404. PDF |
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Awramik, S.M. and Grey, K., 2005. Stromatolites: Biogenicity,
biosignatures, and bioconfusion. Proc. SPIE, 5906: 5906P-1--5906P-9. PDF |
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Shapiro, R.S. and Awramik, S.M., 2006. Favosamaceria cooperi
new group and form: A widely dispersed, time-restricted thrombolites. Journal
of Paleontology, 80: 411-422. PDF |
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Igisu, M., Nakashima, S., Ueno, Y., Awramik, S.M., and Maruyama,
S., 2006. In situ infrared microspectroscopy of ~850 million-year-old prokaryotic
fossils. Applied Spectroscopy, 60(10):1111-1120. PDF |
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Awramik, S.M., 2006. Respect for stromatolites. Nature, 441:700-701. PDF |
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Storrie-Lombardi, M.C. and Awramik, S.M., 2006. A sideways view of stromatolites:
Complexity metrics for stromatolite laminae. Proc. SPIE, 6309:63090P-1--63090P-12. PDF |
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In Press: |
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Awramik, S.M. and McNamara, K.J., in press. The evolution and diversification
of life. In: Sullivan, W. and Baross, J. (Eds.), Planets and Life: The
Emerging Field of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |
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Awramik, S.M. and McNamara, K.J., in press. The Geological Time Scale.
In: Sullivan, W. and Baross, J. (Eds.), Planets and Life: The Emerging
Field of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |
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Lamb, D.M., Awramik, S.M., and Zhu, S., in press. Paleoproterozoic compression-like
structures from the Changzhougou Formation China: Eukaryotes or clasts?
Precambrian Research. PDF |
