Evidence of vanished evaporites in Neoarchaean carbonates of South Africa

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 285, Issue , 2007, Pages 285-308

  Gandin, A ^a   Wright, Davy T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DIAGENESIS; EVAPORITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STROMATOLITE;

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

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38349169554     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP285.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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