Occurrence and significance of microbialites in the uplifted Tasmaloum reef (SW Espiritu Santo, SW Pacific)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 305-316

  Cabioch, Guy ^a   Taylor, Frederick W ^b   Corrège, Thierry ^a   Récy, Jacques ^a   Edwards, Lawrence R ^c   Burr, George S ^d   Le Cornec, Florence ^e   Banks, Kirsten A ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Newton Horace Winchell Sch of E   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Growth; Microbialites; Paleoenvironment; SW Pacific; Uplifted coasts; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIALITE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REEF;

VANUATU;

EID: 6544281573     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00046-9     Document Type: Article

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