Lithofacies and biofacies of mid-paleozoic thermal spring deposits in the Drummond Basin, Queensland, Australia

Palaios

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 497-518

  Walter, Malcolm R ^a   Desmarais, David ^b   Farmer, Jack D ^b   Hinman, Nancy W ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARBONIFEROUS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENTOVALVA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

FRESH WATER;

CARBONIFEROUS; CYANOBACTERIA; DEVONIAN; HOT SPRING; SINTER; STROMATOLITE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT; SEDIMENT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; EXOBIOLOGY; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; HEAT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, DRUMMOND BASIN;

EID: 0030389730     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515187     Document Type: Article

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