Microbial communities in Messinian evaporite deposits of the Vena del Gesso (northern Apennines, Italy)

Stratigraphy

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 343-352

  Panieri, Giuliana ^a,b   Lugli, Stefano ^c   Manzi, Vinicio ^d   Palinska, Katarzyna A ^e   Roveri, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENA DEL GESSO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; SCYTONEMATACEAE;

EID: 58249086596     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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