The nature of stromatolites: 3,500 million years of history and a century of research

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

Volumn 131, Issue , 2011, Pages 29-74

  Riding, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_3     Document Type: Article

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