Modern terrestrial analogues for the carbonate globules in Martian meteorite ALH84001

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 167-172

  Kazmierczak, Józef ^a   Kempe, Stephan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; GROUND WATER;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FOSSIL; LAKE; LOW TEMPERATURE; ROCK; SURFACE PROPERTY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 0037955597     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0411-x     Document Type: Article

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