The Biogenicity of Carbonate/Silica Structures in Little Hot Creek: Tenants and Builders

Emily Antoinette Kraus1, R. Agustin Mors2, Scott Randall Beeler3, James Gregory Floyd4, Geobiology 20165, Blake W Stamps6, Heather S Nunn6, Bradley S. Stevenson6, Russell Scott Shapiro7, Hope Johnson8, Frank A Corsetti9 and John R Spear1, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (7)California State University Chico, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, (8)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States