Early Ordovician reef construction in Anhui Province, South China: A geobiological transition from microbial- to metazoan-dominant reefs

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Adachi, Natsuko ^a   Ezaki, Yoichi ^b   Liu, Jianbo ^a   Cao, Jun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lithistid sponge; Micrite; Microbe; Ordovician radiation; Reef; Stromatolite

Indexed keywords

BIOCLASTIC SEDIMENT; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; DOMINANCE; ENRICHMENT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; METAZOAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; REEF; SPONGE; STROMATOLITE; TREMADOCIAN;

ANHUI; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

GIRVANELLA; LITHISTIDA; METAZOA; RECEPTACULITIDAE;

EID: 69349100075     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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