Biologically mediated silicification of marine cyanobacteria and implications for the Proterozoic fossil record
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DOI: 10.1130/g47394.1
Abstract: Silicification was a major mode of fossilization in Proterozoic peritidal environments, but marine silica concentrations and the chemical and biological mechanisms that drove microbial silicification and formation of early diagenetic chert in these environments remain… read more here.
Keywords: marine cyanobacteria; silicification; fossil; mediated silicification ... See more keywords