Petrology of Lower Cretaceous carbonate mud mounds (Albian, N. Spain): Insights into organomineralic deposits of the geological record

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 837-859

  Neuweiler, Fritz ^a   Gautret, Pascale ^b   Thiel, Volker ^c   Lange, Robert ^d   Michaelis, Walter ^c   Reitner, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automicrite; Carbonate mud mounds; Cretaceous; Organomineralization; Spain

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FULVIC ACID; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOLOGY; HUMIC ACID; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY; SPAIN; TROPICS;

ALBIAN; CRETACEOUS; MICRITE; MUD MOUND;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033386521     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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