Roll-up structures: Evidence of in situ microbial mats in late Archean deep shelf environments

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-24

  Simonson, Bruce M ^a   Carney, Karen E ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; MICROBIAL MAT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033082728     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515358     Document Type: Article

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