Insights into foraminiferal influences on microfabrics of microbialites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9830-9834

  Bernhard, Joan M ^a   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a   Visscher, Pieter T ^b   McIntyre Wressnig, Anna ^a   Summons, Roger E ^c   Bouxsein, Mary L ^d,e   Louis, Leeann ^d   Jeglinski, Marleen ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Geobiology; Neoproterozoic; Ooid; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FORAMINIFER; FOSSIL; GRAIN; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GEOBIOLOGY; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OOID; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BAHAMAS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA; FORAMINIFERA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84878985929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221721110     Document Type: Article

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