Microbial processes forming daily lamination in a stromatolitic travertine

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 208, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 114-119

  Takashima, Chizuru ^a   Kano, Akihiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Cyanobacteria; Hot spring; Japan

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; CALCITE; CYANOBACTERIUM; LAMINATION; METABOLISM; MICRITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; STROMATOLITE; THERMAL SPRING; TRAVERTINE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 48349146712     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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