Baking black opal in the desert sun: The importance of silica in desert varnish: Comment

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dorn, Ronald I ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT SOIL; LITERATURE REVIEW; OPAL; ROCK VARNISH; SILICA;

EID: 60849119730     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23410C.1     Document Type: Note

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