Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the <3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, That Resemble Macroscopic Morphology, Spatial Associations, and Temporal Succession in Terrestrial Microbialites

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Astrobiology

• Publication date

  2015-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1089/ast.2014.1218PMID 25495393
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