Variations in Neoarchean microbialite morphologies: Clues to controls on microbialite morphologies through time

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1189-1202

  Murphy, Megan A ^a,b   Sumner, Dawn Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioherm; Microbialite; Morphology; Neoarchean; Oxygen; Stromatolite

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BIOHERM; MICROBIALITE; MORPHOLOGY; STROMATOLITE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 52249104013     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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