The sub-seafloor biosphere and sulphate-reducing prokaryotes: Their presence and significance

Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria: Environmental and Engineered Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 329-358

  Parkes, R John ^a   Sass, Henrik ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65449176983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541490.012     Document Type: Chapter

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