Taking advantage of time-averaging

Paleobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 226-238

  Olszewski, Thomas ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; FOSSIL; METHODOLOGY;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0032752960     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S009483730002652X     Document Type: Article

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