The genesis and time distribution of two distinctive proterozoic stromatolite microstructures

Palaios

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 408-422

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Semikhatov, Mikhail A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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