Microbial mats in terminal Proterozoic siliciclastics: Ediacaran death masks

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-57

  Gehling, James G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL MAT; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TRACE FOSSIL;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033082777     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515360     Document Type: Article

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