Microbial crusts as indicators of stratigraphic diastems in the Cambrian Brèche à Micmacca, Atlas Mountains of Morocco

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 185, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 255-265

  Álvaro, Jose Javier ^a,b   Clausen, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Fe oxides; Microbialites; Morocco; Shell beds

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; MICROBIAL MAT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; NORTH AFRICA;

CHANCELLORIIDAE; ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 33645064851     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.025     Document Type: Article

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