Erosional remnants and pockets evolving from biotic-physical interactions in a recent lower supratidal environment

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 175-181

  Noffke, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actualism; Biostabilization; Cyanobacteria; Microbial mats; Microbially induced sedimentary structures; Siliciclastic; Tidal environment

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STABILIZATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 0032861280     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00135-3     Document Type: Article

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