Self-Assembled Silica-Carbonate Structures and Detection of Ancient Microfossils

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1194-1197

  Garcia Ruiz J M ^a   Hyde, S T ^b   Carnerup, A M ^b   Christy, A G ^b   Van Kranendonk, M J ^c   Welham, N J ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MICROFOSSILS;

CARBONATES;

BARIUM; CARBONIC ACID; HYDROCARBON; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOSSIL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; PH; PRECAMBRIAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUSTRALIA; BARIUM; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOBACTERIA; EXOBIOLOGY; FORMALDEHYDE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIFE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHENOL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0242666139     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090163     Document Type: Article

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