Pseudomorphs after evaporitic minerals interbedded with 2.2 Ga stromatolites of the Yerrida basin, Western Australia: Origin and significance

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 871-874

  El Tabakh, Mohamed ^a   Grey, Kathleen ^b   Pirajno, Franco ^b   Schreiber, B Charlotte ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Appalachian State College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); GALLIUM; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES;

CALCIUM SULFATE; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; CRYSTAL SHAPES; FINE GRAINED; QUARTZ CRYSTAL; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SHALLOW MARINE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

SULFATE MINERALS;

EVAPORITE; PROTEROZOIC; PSEUDOMORPH; STROMATOLITE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERNN AUSTRALIA; YERRIDA BASIN;

EID: 0033403334     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0871:PAEMIW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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