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Nora Noffke
Assistant Professor

Noffke, N. (2007):  Microbially induced sedimentary structures in Archean sandstones: A new window into early life. Gondwana Research,  vol.11 no 3 ,  336-342

 

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

Noffke, N., Beukes, N, Gutzmer, J., Hazen, R. (2006a): Spatial and temporal distribution of microbially induced sedimentary structures: A case study from siliciclastic storm deposits of the 2.9 Ga Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa.  Precambrian Research, 146, 35-44.

Draganits, E. & Noffke, N. (2004): Siliciclastic, domed Stromatolites from the Lower Devonian Muth Formation, NW Himalaya. Journal of Sedimentary Research- 74, 2, 191-202.

Noffke, N., Hazen, R. & Nhleko, N. (2003b): Earth's Earliest Microbial Mats in a Siliciclastic Marine Environment (Mozaan Group, 2.9 Ga, South Africa). Geology, v. 31, no. 6, p. 673-676.

Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., & 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, 62/1-2, 163-176.

Noffke, N., Knoll, A.H. & 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, 1-12.

Noffke, N., Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. & Krumbein, W.E. (2001b) Microbially induced sedimentary structures - a new category within the classification of primary sedimentary structures. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, 5, 649-656.

Noffke,N.,  Gerdes, G., Klenke, Th. & Krumbein, W.E. (2001a): Microbially Induced Sedimental Structures Indicating Climatological, Hydrological and Depositional Conditions within Recent and Pleistocene Coastal Facies Zones (Southern Tunisia). Facies, v. 44, 23-30.

Gerdes G, Klenke T, Noffke N.,(2000b) ,Microbial signatures in peritidal siliciclastic sediments: a catalogue. Sedimnetology, v.47 , no. 2, 279-308.

Gerdes G, Krumbein, W.E., T, Noffke N. (2000a) : Evaporite Microbial Sediments, Microbial Sediments, ed. Riding, R.E. & Awramik, S.M., Berlin: Springer-Verlag , 196-208.

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,  v.136, no 3-4, 207-215.

Noffke N, Krumbein W.E.(1999a): A quantitative approach to sedimentary surface structures contoured by the interplay of microbial colonization and physical dynamics, Sedimentology, v. 46, no3, 417-426

Noffke,N. (1999): Erosional remnants and pockets evolving from biotic-physical interactions in a Recent lower supratidal environment, Sedimentary Geology, v. 123 no. 3-4, 175-181

Noffke N., (1998): Multidirected ripple marks rising from biological and sedimentological processes in modern lower supratidal deposits (Mellum Island, southern North Sea). Geology v. 26, no.10,  879-882.

Noffke N., Gerdes G. Klenke Th. & Krumbein W.E. (1997b): The impact of sediment-stabilizing biofilms on the architecture of sedimentary structures (Mellum Island, Southern North Sea). Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, v.201,  297 - 305.

Noffke N, Gerdes G, Klenke T, et al.(1997a): A microscopic sedimentary succession of graded sand and microbial mats in modern siliciclastic tidal flats, Sedimentary Geology, v.110 no.1-2,  1-6 .

Noffke N., Gerdes G., Klenke T., Krumbein W.E.(1996): Microbially induced sedimentary structures-Examples from modern sediments of siliciclastic tidal flats, Zentralblatt fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Teil I,  307-316.

Noffke, N. & Nitsch, E. (1994): Extensive microbial mats and their influences on the erosional and depositional dynamics of a siliciclastic cold water environment (Lower Arenigian, Montagne Noire, France), Géologie de France, v. 4, 3-19.