Preservation of Devonian chemotrophic filamentous bacteria in calcite veins

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 288-294

  Trewin, Nigel H ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DEVONIAN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; COCCOIDEA; ENTOVALVA; FUNGI; ORCADIA;

EID: 0033150931     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515441     Document Type: Article

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