Terminal Proterozoic mid-shelf benthic microbial mats in the Centralian Superbasin and their environmental significance

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1345-1358

  Logan, Graham A ^a   Calver, Clive R ^b   Gorjan, Paul ^b   Summons, Roger E ^a   Hayes, John M ^c   Walter, Malcolm R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ASPHALT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; HYDROCARBON; IRON; PYRITE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL MAT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; OMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANKTON; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA; SEDIMENT;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALKANES; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; IRON; OCEANS AND SEAS; OMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANKTON; SIBERIA; SULFIDES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032699343     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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