Alternating Si and Fe deposition caused by temperature fluctuations in Precambrian oceans

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 703-708

  Posth, Nicole R ^a   Hegler, Florian ^a   Konhauser, Kurt O ^b   Kappler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 58249131841     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo306     Document Type: Article

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