Colour banding in a latest Neoproterozoic-Cambrian microbially variegated sabkha of the Taoudeni Basin, Adrar of Mauritania

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 367-368, Issue , 2012, Pages 209-218

  Álvaro, J Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Iron oxyhydroxides; Pan African orogeny; Redox conditions; West african craton

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOFILM; CLAST; DEHYDRATION; DIAGENESIS; EPHEMERAL STREAM; EVAPORITE; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; MICROBIAL MAT; MINERALIZATION; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PLAYA; PROTEROZOIC; PYRITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; REWORKING; SABKHA;

ADRAR [MAURITANIA]; MAURITANIA; TAOUDENNI BASIN;

EID: 84870390603     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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