Middle Archean volcano-hydrothermal sequence: Bacterial microfossil-bearing 3.2 Ga Dixon Island Formation, coastal Pilbara terrane, Australia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 3-22

  Kiyokawa, Shoichi ^a   Ito, Takashi ^b   Ikehara, Minoru ^c   Kitajima, Fumio ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black shale; Greenstone belt; Hydrothermal; Immature island arc; Microfossil; Middle Archean

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL; IMMATURE ISLAND ARC; MICROFOSSIL; VOLCANO-HYDROTHERMAL SEQUENCE;

COASTAL ZONES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; VOLCANOES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHEAN; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 31444455522     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25748.1     Document Type: Article

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