Biomat-related lifestyles in the Precambrian

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 86-93

  Seilacher, Adolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL MAT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 0033083440     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515363     Document Type: Article

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