Wrinkle structures: Microbially mediated sedimentary structures common in subtidal siliciclastic settings at the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1047-1050

  Hagadorn, James W ^a   Bottjer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS;

ANCIENT STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL MATS; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MICROBIAL STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RIPPLE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN/CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; WRINKLE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031422267     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1047:WSMMSS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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