Carbonate stromatolites from a Messinian hypersaline setting in the Caltanissetta Basin, Sicily: Petrographic evidence of microbial activity and related stable isotope and rare earth element signatures

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 142-161

  Oliveri, Elvira ^a   Neri, Rodolfo ^a   Bellanca, Adriana ^a   Riding, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcare di Base; Messinian; Microbial carbonate; Petrography; Rare earth elements; Sicily; Stable isotopes; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DOLOMITE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LIMESTONE; MESSINIAN; MICRITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PETROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STROMATOLITE;

CALTANISSETTA; ITALY; SICILY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; SUTERA;

EID: 72649090010     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01094.x     Document Type: Article

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