Towards a null hypothesis for stromatolites

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-125

  Brasier, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Gunflint chert; Self organising structures; Strelley pool formation; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869743333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8794-2_5     Document Type: Chapter

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