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Structure of Microbial Mats and Biofilms.- Exopolymer Microdomains as a Structuring Agent for Heterogeneity Within Microbial Biofilms.- On Stromatolite Lamination.- Bacterial Calcification.- Bacterial Roles in the Precipitation of Carbonate Minerals.- Bacterially Induced Microscale and Nanoscale Carbonate Precipitates.- Calcification in Cyanobacteria.- Cyanobacteria: Architects of Sedimentary Structures.- Fungi and Sediments.- Diatoms and Benthic Microbial Carbonates.- Carbon Isotopes and Microbial Sediments.- Sulphur Isotopes and Microbial Sulphur Cycling in Sediments.- Products and Depth Limits of Microbial Activity in Petroliferous Subsurface Settings.- Microbe-Metal Interactions in Sediments.- Microbial Phosphate Sediment.- Microbes and Black Shales.- Organic and Biogeochemical Patterns in Cryptic Microbialites.- Subaerial Microbial Mats and Their Effects on Soil and Rock.- Microbial Sediments in Tropical Karst Terrains: A Model Based on the Cayman Islands.- Ambient Temperature Freshwater Microbial Tufas.- Microbial Precipitates Around Continental Hot Springs and Geysers.- Evaporite Microbial Sediments.- Gypsum Microbial Sediments: Neogene and Modern Examples.- Siliciclastic Intertidal Microbial Sediments.- Subaqueous Siliciclastic Stromatolites: A Case History from Late Miocene Beach Deposits in the Sorbas Basin of SE Spain.- Shallow Marine Microbial Carbonate Deposits.- Microbial Whitings.- Cold Seep Carbonates in the Tertiary of Northwest Italy: Evidence of Bacterial Degradation of Methane.- Microbial Processes and Products Fueled by Hydrocarbons at Submarine Seeps.- Microbial Contribution to Reefal Mud-Mounds in Ancient Deep-Water Settings: Evidence from the Cambrian.- Mesozoic Reefal Thrombolites and Other Microbolites.- Proterozoic Stromatolite Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy.- Microbial vs Environmental Influences on the Morphology of Late Archean Fenestrate Microbialites.- Archean Stromatolites as Microbial Archives.