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The morphology of fossilized biogenic particles and the elemental composition of biogenic formations, discovered for the first time in Lower Silurian deposits within the Timan–Northern Urals region, are considered. The diversity of biogenic formations identified in stromatolites indicates a high level of activity of microorganisms forming the cyanobacterial mat and confirms the microbial origin of the Wenlockian stromatolite buildups.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Matveev, 2017, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 474, No. 2, pp. 206–209.
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Matveev, V.A. Ultrastructures of stromatolites from the Wenlockian of Chernov Swell. Dokl. Earth Sc. 474, 494–497 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X17050142
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