Anatomy of biologically mediated opal speleothems in the World's largest sandstone cave: Cueva Charles Brewer, Chimantá Plateau, Venezuela

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 181-195

  Aubrecht, R ^a   Brewer Carias Ch ^b   Smida B ^c   Audy, M ^d   Kovacik L ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b Edif Torre America PH B   (Venezuela)

^c Slovak Speleological Society   (Slovakia)

^d Czech Speleological Society   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Microbialites; Sandstone caves; Siliceous speleothems; Stromatolites; Tepuis

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIALITE; OPAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SANDSTONE; SPELEOTHEM; STROMATOLITE;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

ARANEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; METAZOA; NOSTOC;

EID: 39649106328     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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