Neoproterozoic carbonate shrubs: Interplay of microbial activity and unusual environmental conditions in post-snowball earth oceans

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 378-387

  Fraiser, Margaret L ^a   Corsetti, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DIAGENESIS; EARLY EARTH; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 0344082896     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0378:NCSIOM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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