Covariance of microfossil assemblages and microbialite textures across an upper mesoproterozoic carbonate platform

Palaios

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 453-470

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Wörndle, Sarah ^b   Kah, Linda C ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CEMENTATION; CHERT; LITHIFICATION; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIALITE; MICROFOSSIL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SATURATION; STROMATOLITE; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84884525761     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2013.p13-005r     Document Type: Article

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