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January 01, 2015; Volume 418,Issue 1

Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time: Implications for Global Exploration and Production

Editors: D. W. J. Bosence, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
K. A. Gibbons, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd, UK
D. P. Le Heron, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
W. A. Morgan, Morgan Geoscience Consulting, LLC, USA
T. Pritchard, BG Group, UK and
B. A. Vining, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Microbialites viewed with respect to increasing space and time of formation: mineralized, short-lived, micron-scale microbial mats, an outcrop of decametre-scale microbial mounds and long-lived, tens of kilometre-scale microbial carbonate platforms imaged in 3D seismic data.

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