Van Loon et al.'s paper "The response of stromatolites to seismic shocks: Tomboliths from the Palaeoproterozoic Chaibasa Formation, E India" with a new term "tomboliths" and original viewpoints should be publish...
This discussion of a paper by Van Loon et al.(2016), published in the Journal of Palaeogeography(2016, 5(4), 381e390), is aimed at illustrating that there are fundamental deficiencies, which include(1)incomple...
Our contribution about a newly recognized sedimentological feature, which we called tombolith,has raised some comments on the etymology of the term, the assumed lack of field data, the usage of a term that has a speci...
project was supported by the Foundation Dr Schurmannfonds,grants no.34/2006 and 57/2009,67/2010 and 82/2012;the DST and the Department of Geology,Calcutta University for financial support and infrastructural support
It is demonstrated here for the first time how Palaeoproterozoic stromatolites survived seismic disturbance of their substrate. The stromatolites under study could have been cyanobacteria or any other photo-autotrophi...