Earliest Triassic microbialites in Çürük Dag, southern Turkey: Composition, sequences and controls on formation

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 739-755

  Kershaw, Steve ^a   Crasquin, Sylvie ^b   Forel, Marie Béatrice ^b   Randon, Carine ^b   Collin, Pierre Yves ^c   Kosun, Erdal ^d   Richoz, Sylvain ^e   Baud, Aymon ^f  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f BGC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hybrid microbialite; Mass extinction; Microbialite; Stromatolite; Thrombolite; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952579484     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01181.x     Document Type: Article

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