Reinvestigating carboniferous actinomycetes: Authigenic formation of biomimetic carbonates provides insight into early diagenesis of permineralized plants

Palaios

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-92

  Klymiuk, Ashley A ^a   Harper, Carla J ^a   Moore, David S ^a   Taylor, Edith L ^a   Taylor, Thomas N ^a   Krings, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENESIS; BIODEGRADATION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE; CARBONIFEROUS; CONCRETION; DOLOMITE; FERN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHLOEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TAPHONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT;

EID: 84874642421     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-053r     Document Type: Article

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