Microbial fabric formation in spring mounds ('Microbialites') of Alkaline Salt Lakes in the Badain Jaran Sand Sea, PR China

Palaios

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 581-592

  Arp, Gernot ^a   Hofmann, Jürgen ^b   Reitner, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIALITE; SALINE LAKE;

CHINA;

EID: 0032445761     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1043/0883-1351(1998)013<0581:MFFISM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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