Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9548-9555

  Allwood, Abigail C ^a,b   Grotzinger, John P ^c   Knoll, Andrew H ^d   Burch, Ian W ^b   Anderson, Mark S ^a   Coleman, Max L ^a   Kanik, Isik ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosignature; Carbonate; Microbe; Paleontology; Reef

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

ARCHEAN; AUSTRALIA; MICROBIAL MAT; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROCK; SEA; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; MARINE BIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67649880645     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903323106     Document Type: Review

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