This report provides a rationale for the advances in instrumentation and understanding needed to assess claims of ancient and extraterrestrial life made on the basis of morphological biosignatures. Morphological biosignatures consist of bona fide microbial fossils as well as microbially influenced sedimentary structures. To be recognized as evidence of life, microbial fossils must contain chemi...

Deep saline aquifers widely distributed deep in the earth offer the greatest CO2 storage potential in all current geological CO2 storage approaches. The western region of the Saharan platform in Algeria includes several sedimentary basins characterized by a large production of dry gas with high CO2 rates sometimes exceeding 9 %. To reduce CO2 emissions, these basins were analyzed to identify th...

The Matakaoa Debris Flow (MDF) is a 200-km-long mass-transport deposit resulting from the failure of the Matakaoa continental margin, northeast New Zealand, ca. 38–100 ky ago. In this study, high-quality bathymetric and seismic reflection data are used to identify the morpho-structural characters that reflect the kinematics of the MDF, as well as its interactions with basin sediments. We demons...

Fluvial strata dominated internally by sedimentary structures of interpreted upper flow regime origin are moderately common in the rock record, yet their abundance is not appreciated and many examples may go unnoticed. A spectrum of sedimentary structures is recognised, all of which occur over a wide range of scale: 1. cross-bedding with humpback, sigmoidal and ultimately low-angle cross-sectio...

Abstract ––A large regional-scale Ordovician continental basin has been revealed for the first time in Siberia. Sedimentary structures rocks of Tyva represent deposition environments rivers, oxbow lakes, dunes, river deltas, tidal, and coastal plains. Ichnofossils record a succession from freshwater (limnic-fluvial) to deltaic tidal facies. Integrated studies sedimentary Central show that they ...