Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7094, 2006, Pages 714-718

  Allwood, Abigail C ^a   Walter, Malcolm R ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b   Marshall, Craig P ^a,c   Burch, Ian W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; EARTH (PLANET); FOSSIL FUEL DEPOSITS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BIOGENICITY; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDY; PALAEONTOLOGY; STROMATOLITES;

REEFS;

LANTHANIDE;

AGE; ARCHEAN; CARBONATE; CHERT; FOSSIL; MORPHOTYPE; PALEONTOLOGY; REEF; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STROMATOLITE;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENTATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33744970709     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04764     Document Type: Article

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