Taphonomy of modern marine Bahamian microbialites

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 5-17

  Planavsky, Noah ^a,b   Ginsburg, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CEMENTATION; DISSOLUTION; MICROBIALITE; MODELING; STROMATOLITE; TAPHONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; STREPTOPHYTA;

EID: 60649102041     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-001r     Document Type: Article

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