Microbenthic distribution of Proterozoic tidal flats: Environmental and taphonomic considerations

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-82

  Kah, Linda C ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; SUBSTRATES; TIDES; WETLANDS; DEPOSITION;

BENTHIC CYANOBACTERIA; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SILICIFIED CARBONATES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; BAFFIN ISLANDS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SECULAR CHANGES;

DEPOSITION; SUBSTRATES;

BENTHOS; CARBONATE ROCK; MICROBIALITE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAPHONOMY; TIDAL FLAT; MICROBENTHIC ASSEMBLAGE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; SOCIETY CLIFFS FORMATION;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CANADA; CARBONATES; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 0029657609     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0079:MDOPTF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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