Phanerozoic trends in skeletal mineralogy driven by mass extinctions

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 527-530

  Kiessling, Wolfgang ^a,b   Aberhan, Martin ^a   Villier, Loïc ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 65349098781     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo251     Document Type: Article

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