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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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Metadata
- 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
- Venue
- Precambrian Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-09
- Volume
- 266
- Pages
- 47-64
- ISSN
- 0301-9268 (ISSN-L)
- 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
- 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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