Processes at minerals and surfaces with relevance to microorganisms and prebiotic synthesis

Reviews in Mineralogy

Volumn 35, Issue , 1997, Pages 116-122

  Banfield, Julian F ^a,b   Hamers, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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