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Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)

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Homann, Martin, Heubeck, Christoph, Airo, Alessandro, Tice, Michael M.·2015·Precambrian Research

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Authors: Homann, M., Heubeck, C., Airo, A., & Tice, M. M.
Affiliations: Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
Texas A&M University (US)
Corresponding author: Homann, Martin
ORCID: Homann, Martin
Heubeck, Christoph
Airo, Alessandro
Tice, Michael M.
Venue: Precambrian Research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-09
Volume: 266
Pages: 47-64
ISSN: 0301-9268 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.04.018
OpenAlex: W1981162946
Cited by: 141
References: 149
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4
FWCI: 8.09
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Precambrian Research (publishedVersion)
UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Geological formations and processes
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords: microbial mats, Archean, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, tidal deposits, paleoenvironment, cyanobacteria, microbial motility, microbial interactions

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