Famennian microbial reef facies, Napier and Oscar Ranges, Canning Basin, western Australia

Sedimentology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1283-1302

  Stephens, Nat P ^a   Sumner, Dawn Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canning Basin; Famennian; Microbe; Reef; Stromatolite; Thrombolite

Indexed keywords

FAMENNIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REEF; STROMATOLITE; THROMBOLITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CANNING BASIN; NAPIER RANGE; OSCAR RANGE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

GIRVANELLA; ROTHPLETZELLA; URALINELLA; WETHEREDELLA;

EID: 0347900568     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2003.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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