Matground structures and redox facies

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-39

  Pflüger, Friedrich ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIES; MICROBIAL MAT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SILURIAN; TEMPESTITE;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA;

EID: 0033082774     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515359     Document Type: Article

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