Microfossil populations in the context of synsedimentary micrite deposition and acicular carbonate precipitation: Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 183-208

  Seong Joo, L ^a   Golubic, S ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonate cements; Coccostratus dispergens n. gen. et sp.; Gaoyuzhuang Formation; Mesoproterozoic; Microbial fossils; Microfossils; Precipitates; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007790918     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(99)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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