A comment on tectonics and the future of terrestrial life - Reply

Precambrian Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 293-295

  Lindsay, John F ^a   Brasier, Martin D ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AGE DETERMINATION; GEOLOGY; LAND BIOME; MAGNETIC FIELD; NOTE; OXYGENATION; PETROLOGY;

EID: 0037175789     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00144-4     Document Type: Note

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