The 3.466 Ga "Kitty's Gap Chert," an early Archean microbial ecosystem

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 105-131

  Westall, Frances ^a   De Vries, Sjoukje T ^b   Nijman, Wouter ^b   Rouchon, Virgile ^c,d   Orberger, Beate ^c   Pearson, Victoria ^e   Watson, Jon ^e   Verchovsky, Alexander ^e   Wright, Ian ^e   Rouzaud, Jean Noël ^f,i   Marchesini, Daniele ^g   Severine, Anne ^h  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris ^*  (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Anoxygenic photosynthesizer; Archean; Chemolithotroph; Kitty's gap chert; Microfossil; Near shore environment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CARBON; MICROMETERS; PLANETS; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SILICA; VOLCANOES;

ANOXIA; ANOXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIZER; ARCHEAN; CHEMOLITHOTROPH; KITTY'S GAP CHERT; MICROFOSSIL; NEARSHORES;

GALLIUM;

ANOXIA; ARCHEAN; CARBON; CHERT; ECOSYSTEM; FILM; FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROFOSSIL; POLYMER; POREWATER; SEDIMENT; SILICA; SILICIFICATION;

AUSTRALIA; PILBARA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COCCOIDEA;

EID: 73949144698     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(07)     Document Type: Article

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