Biocatalytic transformations of hydrothermal fluids

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1723, 1997, Pages 475-486

  Jannasch, Holger W ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISMS; HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT;

EID: 0030828609     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0018     Document Type: Article

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