Morphological preservation of carbonaceous plant fossils in blueschist metamorphic rocks from New Zealand

Geobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-129

  Galvez, M E ^a,b   Beyssac, O ^a   Benzerara, K ^a   Bernard, S ^c   Menguy, N ^a   Cox, S C ^d   Martinez, I ^e   Johnston, M R ^d   Brown, G E ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT; PRESERVATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARBON; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; NEW ZEALAND; PLANTS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

NEW ZEALAND;

MICAS;

EID: 84863418957     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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