Exploring earth's oldest geological record in Greenland

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Volumn 80, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 257-264

  Appel, Peter W U ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSIL; GREENLAND; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

BIOGENESIS; CARBON ISOTOPES; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; MINERALS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0033535844     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: 23249250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/99EO00189     Document Type: Article

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