Abstract
The assemblages of fossilized microorganisms from volcano-sedimentary material sandwiched between basaltic lava flows in Early Proterozoic (2.0 Ga ago) volcanics of the Sortavala Group of the Sortavala Uplift (northern Lake Ladoga region, near the village of Kharlu) are studied. It is confirmed that volcanogenic and volcano-sedimentary rocks are of significance for bacterial paleontology.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Astafieva, M.M., Life in volcanic glasses: ancient and recent, Tr. XV Vseross. mikropaleontol. soveshch. “Sovremennaya mikropaleontologiya”, 12–16 sentyabrya 2012 g., Gelendzhik (Modern Micropaleontology: Proceedings of the 15th All-Russia Micropaleontological Meeting, September, 12–16, 2012, Gelendzhik), Vishnevskaya, V.S., Goreva, N.V., and Filimonova, T.V., Eds., Moscow, 2012, pp. 472–475.
Astafieva, M.M., Sharkov, E.V., Chistyakov, A.V., and Bogina, M.M., Comparative characteristics of fossil microbes in volcanic glasses from the early Paleoproterozoic pillow lavas of Karelia and modern volcanic glasses from pillow-lavas of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in Vodorosli v evolyutsii biosfery (Algae in the Evolution of the Biosphere), Rozhnov, S.V., Ed., Geo-biologicheskie sistemy v proshlom, Moscow: Paleontol. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2014, pp. 99–118.
Astafieva, M.M., Rozanov, A.Yu., Cornell, D.H., and Hoover, R.B., Development of living organisms on the lava–water interface of Palaeoproterozoic Ongeluk lavas of South Africa, Proc. SPIE, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI, 2008, vol. 7097, pp. 709703-1–709703-13.
Astafieva, M.M., Rozanov, A.Yu., Sadovnikov, G.N., and Sapova, E.V., Fossil bacteria from the Permotriassic trappean strata of Siberia, Paleontol. J., 2009, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 896–904.
Astafieva, M.M., Life in the Early Precambrian pillowlavas of Central Karelia, in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. “Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology, and Meiobenthology,” Moscow, September 19–22, 2011, Moscow: Paleontol. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, pp. 35–38.
Astafieva, M.M., Chistyakov, A.A., Bogina, M.M., and Sharkov, E.V., Early Proterozoic pillow lavas of Suisari as habitats of the earliest microorganisms, Paleontol. J., 2013, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 1110–1115.
Fisk, M.R., Storrie-Lombardi, M.C., and Josef, J.A., Aqueous biotic and abiotic alteration of silicate rock: Evaluation of landing sites on Mars for their potential of revealing evidence for life, Proc. SPIE, 2006, vol. 6309, pp. 630903-1–630903-9.
Friedmann, E.I. and Koriem, A.M., Life on Mars: how it disappeared (if it was ever there), Adv. Space Res., 1989, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 167–172.
Furnes, H. and Staudigel, H., Biological mediation in ocean crust alteration: how deep is the deep biosphere?, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 1999, vol. 166, pp. 97–103.
Furnes, H., Banerjee, N.R., Muehlenbachs, K., Staudigel, H., and de Wit, M., Early life recorded in Archean pillow lavas, Science, 2004, vol. 304, no. 5670, pp. 578–581.
Astafieva, M.M., Gerasimenko, L.M., Geptner, A.R.
Zhegallo, E.A., Zhmur, S.I., Karpov, G.A., Orleansky, V.K., Ponomarenko, A.G., Rozanov, A.Yu., Sumina, E.L., Ushatinskaya, G.T., Hoover, R.B., and Shkolnik, E.L, Iskopaemye bakterii i drugie mikroorganizmy v zemnykh porodakh i astromaterialakh (Fossil Bacteria and Other Microorganisms in Terrestrial Rocks and Astromaterials) Rozanov, A.Yu. and Ushatinskaya, G.T., Eds., Moscow: Paleontol. Inst. Russ. Akad. Nauk, 2011.
Lysnes, K., Thorseth, I.H., Steinsbu, B.O., Øvreås, L, Torsvik, T., and Pedersen, R.B., Microbial community diversity in seafloor basalts from the Arctic spreading ridges, FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 2004, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 213–230.
Matrenichev, V.A., Stepanov, K.I., and Pupkov, O.M., Stratigraphy, lithology, and chemistry of the Early Proterozoic volcanics of the Sortava uplift (Northern Lake Ladoga area), Vestn. S.-Peterb. Gos. Univ., Ser. 7: Geol. Geogr., 2004, vol. 2, no. 2. pp. 31–44.
McLoughlin, N., Furnes, H., Banerjee, N.R., Simonetti, A., Muehlenbachs, K., Staudigel, H., De Wit, M., and van Krankendonk, M., Volcanic glass a habitat for the origins and evolution of microbial life, in IIInternational Conference “Biosphere Origin and Evolution,” October 28–November 2, 2007, Loutraki, Greece: Abstracts, Kolchanov, N.A., Rozanov, A.Yu., and Snytnikov, V.N., Eds., Novosibirsk: Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2007, pp. 16–17.
Rasmussen, B., Filamentous microfossils in a 3 235-million-year-old volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Nature, 2000, vol. 405, no. 6787, pp. 676–679.
Rozanov, A.Yu., Astafieva, M.M., and Hoover, R.B., The Early Earth and its environments, Proc. SPIE, 2008, vol. 7097, pp. 709707-1–09707-15.
Rozanov, A.Yu. and Astafieva, M.M., The evolution of the Early Precambrian geobiological systems, Paleontol. J., 2009, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 911–927.
Staudigel, H. and Furnes, H., Microbial mediation of oceanic crust alteration, in Hydrogeology of the Oceanic Crust, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
Staudigel, H., Bailey, B.E., Furnes, H., Tebo, B., and Templeton, A., The ocean crust as a bioreactor, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 2004a, vol. 68, no. 11, Spec. Suppl. Goldschmidt Conf. Abstr., p. A401.
Staudigel, H., Furnes, H., Kelley, K., Plank, T., Muehlenbachs, K., Tebo, B., and Yayanos, A., The oceanic crust as a bioreactor, in The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, Wilcock, W.S.D., Delong, E.F., Kelley, D.S., Baross, J.A., and Craig Cary, S., Eds., Monogr., Ser., vol. 144, Washington, DC: Am. Geophys. Union, 2004b, pp. 325–341.
Stetter, K.O., Fiala, G., Huber, G., and Segerer, A., Hyperthermofilic microorganisms, FEMS Microbiol. Rev., 1990, vol. 75, pp. 117–124.
Stetter, K.O., Hyperthermofiles in the history of life, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 2006, vol. 361, no. 1474, pp. 1837–1843.
Stevens, T.O. and McKinley, J.P., Lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems in deep basalt aquifers, Science, 1995, vol. 270, no. 5235, pp. 450–454.
Thorseth, I.H., Torsvik, T., Torsvik, V., Daae, F.L., and Pedersen, R.B., Keldysh-98 scientific party, 2001: Diversity of life in ocean floor basalts, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2001, vol. 194, nos. 1/2, pp. 31–37.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © M.M. Astafieva, 2017, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, No. 1, pp. 83–87.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Astafieva, M.M. Volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Sortavala Group: A habitat of ancient microorganisms. Paleontol. J. 51, 87–94 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030117010026
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030117010026