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Identification of bacterial fossils in marine source rocks in South China
Description: Based on the results of conventional geochemistry analysis including thin sections and SEM observations, different shapes of bacterial fossils, with size ranging from dozens of nanometers to several microns, were discovered in the low-mature marine source rocks and coal seams in South China, of which the Permian source rocks were dominated by the bacterial fossils derived from symbiotic sulphur bacteria with gypsum, and the Chengkou section in the Cambrian strata were occupied by abundant nanoscale bacterial fossils with rod and bar shapes. [Source: Acta Geochemica]
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11631-017-0209-8
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Source: Acta Geochemica
Publish Date: 2/1/2018
Reading Level: Expert
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