Morphological and compositional evidence for biotic precipitation of marine barite

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 577-593

  Bertram, Miriam A ^a   Cowen, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; BIOTIC PROCESSES; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030683993     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/0022240973224292     Document Type: Article

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