Biosedimentology

Publications

For some of the PDF’s, please email me nnoffke@odu.edu

General Sedimentology and Paleontology
  1. Noffke, N., Beraldi, H., Carmona, N., Callefo, F., Cuadrado, G.G., Hickman-Lewis, K., Homann, M., Mitchell, R., Sheldon, N., and Xiao, S. (2022): Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS).- Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology, vol. B: Prokaryota. View PDF
  2. Dodson, G., Shotorban, K., Hatcher, P., Waggoner, D.C., Ghosal, S., and Noffke, N. (2020): Microplastic fragment and fiber contamination of beach sediments from selected sites in Virginia and North Carolina, USA.- Marine Pollution Bulletin, 151, 110869. View PDF
  3. Retallack, G. and Noffke, N. (2019): Are there ancient soils in the 3.7 Ga Isua Greenstone Belt, Greenland? – Paleoecology, Paleooceanography, Paleoclimatology, 514, 18-30. View PDF
  4. McLoughlin, N., Allen, P., Antcliffe, J., Green, O.R., Grosch, E.G., Hazen, R.M., Knoll, A.H., MacIlroy, D., Menon, L., Noffke, N., and Riding, R. (2015): A tribute to Martin Brasier: paleontologist and astrobiologist (April 12, 1947 – December 16, 2014).- Astrobiology, 15, 940 – 948. View PDF
  5. Wacey, D., Noffke, N., Saunders, M., Guagliardo, P., and Pyle, D. M. (2018): Volcanogenic pseudofossils from the ca. 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia.- Astrobiology, 18, 539-555. View PDF
  6. Noffke, N. and Awramik, S. (2013): Stromatolites and MISS: Differences between relatives.- GSA Today, 9, 5-9. View PDF
  7. Noffke, N. (2005): Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts and Perspectives, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 198 p. View PDF
  8. Noffke, N. (2005): Geobiology – a holistic scientific discipline.- Paleoclimatology, Palaeooceanography, Paleoecology, p. 1-2. View PDF
  9. Noffke, N. (2002): The concept of geobiological studies: the example of bacterially generated structures in physical sedimentary systems.-Palaios, 17,6, 102. View PDF
  10. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (2001) Microbially induced sedimentary structures – a new category within the classification of primary sedimentary structures. – Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 649-656. View PDF
  11. Noffke, N.: (2003b) Bacteria in sediments. – Middleton, C. (ed.): Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, p. 37- 39. View PDF
  12. Gerdes, G., Krumbein, W.E., and Noffke, N. (2000a): Evaporite Microbial Sediments.- in: Riding, R. and Awramik, S. M. (eds.): Microbial sediments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 196-208. View PDF
  13. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (1996): Microbially induced sedimentary structures – examples from modern sediments of siliciclastic tidal flats. – Zbl. Geol. Paläont. Teil I: 1995, 1/2, 307-316. View PDF
  14. Reineck, H.E., Gerdes, G. and Noffke, N. (1996): Physikalische Kräfte, die Rippelmarkenfelder erhalten, ehe sie versteinern. – Natur u. Museum, 125, 169-176. View PDF
  15. Noffke, N. and Nitsch, E. (1994): Sedimentology of Lower Ordovician clastic shelf deposits, Montagne Noire (France). – Géologie de la France, 4, 3-9. View PDF

  1. Callefo, F., Ricardi-Branco, F., Hartman, G.A., Galante, D., Rodrigues, F., Yokoyama, E., Teixeira, C., Noffke, N., Bower, D., Bullock, E.S., Braga, A.H., Coaquira, J. A., and Fernandes M. A. (2019): Evaluating iron as a biomarker of rhythmites: an example from the last Paleozoic ice age of Gondwana. – Sedimentary Geology, 383, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.02.002. View PDF

  2. Ricardi–Branco, F., *Callefo, F., Cataldo, R.A., Noffke, N., Pessenda, L., Vidal, A., and Branco, F.C (2019): Microbial biofacies in Holocene deposits of the Lagoa Salgada, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.- Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88, 1300-1317. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2018.64. View PDF

  3. Noffke, N., Decho, A., and Stoodley, P. (2013): Slime through time: The fossil record of prokaryote evolution.- Palaios, 28, 1- 5. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.SO1. View PDF

  4. Noffke, N. (2009): The criteria for biogeneicity of microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) in Archean, sandy deposits. – Earth Science Reviews, 96, 173-180. View PDF

  5. Noffke, N. (1998): Multidirected ripple marks arising from bacterial stabilization counteracting physical rework in modern sandy deposits (Mellum Island, southern North Sea). – Geology, 26, 879882. View PDF

  6. Noffke, N. (2008): Turbulent lifestyle: Benthic cyanobacteria on Earth’s sandy beaches today and 3 billion years ago. – GSA Today, 18, 4-9. doi: 10.1130/GSATG7A.1. View PDF

  7. Draganits, E. and Noffke, N. (2004): Siliciclastic, domed Stromatolites from the Lower Devonian Muth Formation, NW Himalaya. – Journal of Sedimentary Research, 74, 191-202. View PDF

  8. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., and Klenke, Th. (2003a): Benthic cyanobacteria and their influence on the sedimentary dynamics of peritidal depositional systems (siliciclastic, evaporitic salty and evaporitic carbonatic). – Earth Science Review, 62, 163-176. View PDF

  9. Noffke, N.: (2003a) Microbially induced sedimentary structures: formation and application to sedimentology. – Middleton, C. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, p. 439-441. View PDF

  10. Noffke, N. (2003b): Epibenthic cyanobacterial communities counteracting sedimentary processes within siliciclastic depositional systems (present and past). – in: Paterson, D., Zavarzin, G. and Krumbein, W. E. (eds.): Biofilms through space and time, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, p. 265-280. View PDF

  11. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (2001) Microbially induced sedimentary structures indicating climatological, hydrological and depositional conditions in Recent and Pleistocene coastal facies zones (southern Tunisia). – Facies, 44, 23-30. View PDF

  12. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (2001) Microbially induced sedimentary structures – a new category within the classification of primary sedimentary structures. – Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 649-656. View PDF

  13. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (2002) Classification of primary microbially induced sedimentary structures – reply. – Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 589-590. View PDF

  14. Gerdes, G., Krumbein, W.E., and Noffke, N. (2000a): Evaporite Microbial Sediments.- in: Riding, R. and Awramik, S. M. (eds.): Microbial sediments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 196-208. View PDF

  15. Noffke, N. (2000): Extensive microbial mats and their influences on the erosional and depositional dynamics of a siliciclastic cold water environment (Lower Arenigian, Montagne Noire, France).Sedimentary Geology, 136, 207-215. PII: S0037-0738(00)00098-1. View PDF

  16. Noffke, N. (1999): Erosional remnants and pockets evolving from biotic-physical interactions in a Recent lower supratidal environment. – Sedimentary Geology, 123, 175-181. View PDF

  17. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (1997b): Biofilm impact on sedimentary structures in siliciclastic tidal flats.- Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 201, 297-305. View PDF

  18. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (1997a): A microscopic sedimentary succession indicating the presence of microbial mats in siliciclastic tidal flats.- Sedimentary Geology, 110, 1-6. View PDF

  19. Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (1996): Microbially induced sedimentary structures – examples from modern sediments of siliciclastic tidal flats. – Zbl. Geol. Paläont. Teil I: 1995, 1/2, 307-316. View PDF

  20. Gerdes, G., Noffke, N., Klenke, Th. and Krumbein, W.E. (2001): Microbial signatures in peritidal sediments – a catalogue.- Sedimentology, 47, 279-308. View PDF

  21. Noffke, N. and Krumbein, W.E. (1999): A quantitative approach to sedimentary surface structures contoured by the interplay of microbial colonization and physical dynamics. – Sedimentology, 46, 417426. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00218.x View PDF

  1. Noffke, N. (2021): Microbially induced sedimentary structures in clastic deposits: implication for the prospection for fossil life on Mars.- Astrobiology.  View PDF

  2. Noffke, N., Christian, D., Wacey, D., and Hazen, R.M. (2013): Microbially induced sedimentary structures recording a complex microbial ecosystem in the 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia.- Astrobiology,13, 1103-1124. View PDF

  3. Shulka, Y., Noffke, N., and Sharma, M. (2020): Biofilm microfacies in phosphoritic units of the Neoproterozoic Halkal Shale, Bhima basin, South India – Precambrian Research, 349,105501. View PDF

  4. Noffke, N., Beukes, N., Bower, D., Hazen, R., and Swift, D. (2008): Exceptionally preserved microbial mats of Meso-Archean age: the Sinqueni Formation, 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa.- Geobiology, 6, 5-20. View PDF

  5. Noffke, N. (2008): Turbulent lifestyle: Benthic cyanobacteria on Earth’s sandy beaches today and 3 billion years ago. – GSA Today, 18, 4-9. View PDF

  6. Noffke, N., Beukes, N., and Hazen, R. (2006): Microbially induced sedimentary structures in the 2.9 Ga old Brixton Formation, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa. – Precambrian Research, 146, 35-44. View PDF

  7. Noffke, N., Hazen, R., Eriksson, K., and Simpson, E. (2006): A new window into early life: Microbial mats in a siliciclastic early Archean tidal flat (3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa).- Geology, 34, 253-256. View PDF

  8. Noffke, N. (2007): Microbially induced sedimentary structures in Archean sandstones: a new window into early life.- Gondwana Research, 11, 336-342. View PDF

  9. Noffke, N., Hazen, R. and Nhleko, N. (2003): Earth’s Earliest Microbial Mats in a Siliciclastic Marine Environment (Mozaan Group, 2.9 Ga, South Africa). – Geology, 31, 673-676. View PDF

  10. Noffke, N., Knoll, A.H. and Grotzinger, J. (2002): Sedimentary Controls on the Formation and
    Preservation of Microbial Mats in Siliciclastic Deposits: A Case Study from the Upper Neoproterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. – Palaios, 17, 533-544. View PDF

  1. Noffke, N. (2021): Microbially induced sedimentary structures in clastic deposits: implication for the prospection for fossil life on Mars.- Astrobiology. View PDF

  2. Cabrol, N. A., Bishop, J., Cady, S. L., Demergasso, C., Hinman, N., Hoffmann, M., Kanik, I.,
    Moersch, J., Noffke, N., Phillips, C., Phillips, M., Sanchez Garcia, L., Sobron, P., Summers, D., Warren-Rhodes, K., Wettergreen, D.S., Fernandez-Martinez, M., and Gulick, V. (2021): Adressing Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Search for Biosignatures on Mars.- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53, 1-7. View PDF

  3. Noffke, N. (2014a): Ancient sedimentary structures in the < 3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, that resemble macroscopic morphology, spatial associations, and temporal succession in terrestrial microbialites. – Astrobiology, 15, 169-192. View PDF

  4. Cady, S. and Noffke, N. (2009): Geobiology: Evidence for Early Life on Earth and the Search for Life on other Planets. – GSA Today, 19, 4-10. View PDF

  1. Noffke, N. (2010): Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today. View PDF

  1. Buntin, C. R.C., Matthews, N. A., Breithaupt, B.A., Lockley, M.G., and Noffke, N. (2023): Ancient microbial mats preserving theropod courtship behavior, Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone, Colorado, USA.- Bulletin New Mexico Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci., xxx. View PDF

  2. Noffke, N., Mangano, G., and Buatois, L. (2021): Paleozoic biofilm hunters and meiofauna predators.- Lethaia, 2021. View PDF

  3. Noffke, N., Bartlett, S. and Hagadorn, J. (2019): Microbial structures and dinosaur trackways from a Cretaceous coastal environment (Dakota Group, Colorado, U.S.A.) – Journal of Sedimentary Research, 89, 1096-1108. View PDF

  4. Noffke, N. and Awramik, S. (2013): Stromatolites and MISS: Differences between relatives.- GSA Today, 9, 5-9. View PDF

  1. Noffke, N. (2023): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part B Protoctista 1, vol. 2 Prokaryota; University of Kansas, Lawrence, 200 p.

  2. Noffke, N. and Chafetz, H. (2012): Microbial mats in sandy deposits through time. – SEPM Special Publications, 101, SEPM, Tulsa, 203 p.

  3. Noffke, N. and Bottjer, D. (2009): Microbial mats as biosignatures (ancient and modern). – Astrobiology, 9, 843 – 917.

  4. Noffke, N. (2009): Geobiology: The significance of microbial mats for Earth history. – Earth Science Reviews, 96, 141- 220.

  5. Noffke, N. and Paterson, D. (2008): An actualistic perspective: Biotic-physical interaction of benthic microorganisms and the significance for the biological evolution of Earth. – Geobiology, 6, p. 1 – 93.

  6. Noffke, N. (2005): Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts and Perspectives, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 198 p.

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