Microbial sand chips - A non-actualistic sedimentary structure

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 263-274

  Pflüger, Friedrich ^a   Gresse, Pieter G ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; GRAZING; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIAL SAND CHIP; PRECAMBRIAN; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029754655     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00072-0     Document Type: Article

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