The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6799, 2000, Pages 989-992

  Reid, R P ^a   Visscher, P T ^b   Decho, A W ^c   Stolz, J F ^d   Bebout, B M ^e   Dupraz, C ^a   Macintyre, I G ^f   Paerl, H W ^g   Pinckney, J L ^h   Prufert Bebout, L ^e   Steppe, T F ^g   DesMarais, D J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^h TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; FORMATION MECHANISM; LITHIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SEDIMENTATION; STROMATOLITE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TIME;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

BAHAMAS; CARBONATES; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0034739016     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35023158     Document Type: Article

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