Trace element geochemistry as a tool for interpreting microbialites

Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-170

  Webb, Gregory E ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Microbialite; Microenvironment; Rare earth elements; Stromatolite; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855207719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8794-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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