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Herminghaus, S., Thomas, K.R., Aliaskarisohi, S., Porada, H. and Goehring, L. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3858-7295,
2016.
Kinneyia: a flow-induced anisotropic fossil pattern from ancient microbial mats.
Frontiers in Materials, 3, p. 30.
ISSN 2296-8016
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Abstract
Kinneyia is the commonly used term to describe a class of trace fossil that is strongly associated with microbial mats. The appearance of Kinneyia (or wrinkle structures) in the fossil record has recently led to a number of possible mechanisms being proposed to explain its formation. Here, we outline, and critically compare, three of these models, involving formation of the characteristic ripple structures (i) in mats over liquefied sediment, (ii) by oscillatory flow of microbial aggregates, and (iii) by a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability of the mat surface. Of these models, our study shows that the hydrodynamic instability compares most favorably with the corresponding structures in the fossil record. Implications for the conditions under which the fossils formed are then further discussed.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Frontiers in Materials | ||||
| Creators: | Herminghaus, S., Thomas, K.R., Aliaskarisohi, S., Porada, H. and Goehring, L. | ||||
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | ||||
| Date: | 2016 | ||||
| Volume: | 3 | ||||
| ISSN: | 2296-8016 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||
| Date Added: | 05 Sep 2016 11:07 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2017 12:53 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28385 |
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