Multidirected ripple marks rising from biological and sedimentological processes in modern lower supratidal deposits (Mellum Island, southern North Sea)

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 879-882

  Noffke, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ISLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

FLOODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPRINGS (WATER);

HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC STRESS; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; LOCAL CONSERVATION; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; SEDIMENTARY GRAINS; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA;

BIOFILMS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CYANOBACTERIUM; HYDRODYNAMICS; REWORKING; RIPPLE MARK; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TIDAL FLAT;

MELLUM ISLAND; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84879883557     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0879:MRMRFB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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