
ALT Color diagrams depicting the paragenesis of the putative microfossils, including deposition of the iron formation (A), extrusion of vesicular basalts (B), seawater alteration of the lava and colonization of vesicles along fractures (C, D), mineralization of microbial filaments by Fe-rich clays, and calcite cementation (E-H).

ALT Color-coded sketch illustrating the spatial distribution of sedimentary and volcanic lithofacies on a seamount with a large volcaniclastic slope apron approaching a trench. Yellow to beige colors represent the trench-fill lithofacies. Green, purple, and blue colors represent the volcanic strata of the ocean plate lithofacies. Black, gray, and red colors represent the pelagic sedimentary strata of ocean plate lithofacies.

















