A new window into Early Archean life: Microbial mats in Earth's oldest siliciclastic tidal deposits (3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa)

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 253-256

  Noffke, Nora ^a   Eriksson, Kenneth A ^b   Hazen, Robert M ^c   Simpson, Edward L ^d  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Archean; Microbial mats; Microbially induced sedimentary structures; Moodies Group; Siliciclastic tidal flats

Indexed keywords

BIOGENICITY; MICROBIAL MATS; MICROBIALLY INDUCED SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES; MICROFOSSILS; SILICICLASTIC TIDAL DEPOSITS; STROMATOLITES; ARCHEAN; MOODIES GROUP; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TIDAL FLAT;

BACTERIA; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LAMINATES; OCEAN HABITATS; SANDSTONE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; MICROORGANISMS; TIDES; WETLANDS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; EARLY EARTH; MICROBIAL MAT; ORIGIN OF LIFE; CHERT; DESICCATION; EARTH; FOSSIL RECORD; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TIDAL FLAT;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LAMIINAE;

EID: 33645718313     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22246.1     Document Type: Article

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