Non-skeletal carbonate production and stromatolite growth within a Pleistocene deep ocean (Last glacial maximum, Red Sea)

Facies

Volumn , Issue 40, 1999, Pages 211-228

  Brachert, Thomas C ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Deep marine; Pleistocene; Red Sea; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEEP SEA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE; STROMATOLITE;

RED SEA;

EID: 0032989045     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02537475     Document Type: Article

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