Microbialite morphostratigraphy as a tool for correlating Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician sequences

Journal of Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-180

  Shapiro, Russell S ^a,b   Awramik, Stanley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MICROBIALITE; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; NEVADA; PALEONTOLOGY; UTAH;

EID: 0034084195     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314394     Document Type: Article

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