Geomicrobiology of sulfide mineral oxidation

Reviews in Mineralogy

Volumn 35, Issue , 1997, Pages 381-390

  Nordstrom, D Kirk ^a   Southam, Gordon ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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