Introduction to geomicrobiology: Microbial interactions with minerals

CMS Workshop Lectures

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-35

  Maurice, Patricia A ^a   Warren, Lesley A ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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