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Microorganisms may play an important role in the aggregation of sediments and the formation of sedimentary structures. Biofilms are microbial aggregates that, in a mature stage, can develop into microbial mats, fibrillar networks that irreversibly bind filaments of cyanobacteria and sediments, inside which it has been identified a stratification with functional groups of microorganisms that coexist, generate symbiotic relationships and potentially modify the characteristics of sediments and sedimentary rocks, particularly in extreme environments. In this work, filamentous cyanobacteria from biofilms of a lacustrine environment with intervals of flooding/desiccation and a saline environment, and a microbial mat from the Agua Caliente Thermal, El Rosal, Cundinamarca, are identified. In the biofilms, most cyanobacteria were found to belong to the Orden Oscillatoriales, while in the microbial mat cyanobacteria of the order Orden Nostocales were also recognized. Two rock samples isolated from the thermal which genesis was possibly influenced by the activity of cyanobacteria are described and classified. One of them, named R-1, is a calcareous rock inside which it was possible to differentiate biolaminations and an apparent dominance of biomineralization processes. This sample was both classified as a travertine and a microbial framestone with stromatolitic and thrombolytic texture. The second one, called R-2, is a siliciclastic rock classified as a mudstone and a microbial boundstone. Finally, a comparison between the sedimentary structures identified in those rocks with similar structures in the formations La Luna, Paja and Tetuan and the microbially-induced sedimentary structures (MISS) described in the literature is performed. Based on morphological resemblance, fibrillar networks identified locally in those formations are interpreted as possible biolaminations originated from the activity of cyanobacteria.

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Biological and geological characterization of modern biofilms and microbial mats and comparison with similar lithified structures in Colombian Cretaceous formations