The earliest phosphorites: Radical change in the phosphorus cycle during the palaeoproterozoic

Frontiers in Earth Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 1275-1296

  Lepland, Aivo ^a   Melezhik, Victor A ^b   Papineau, Dominic ^b   Romashkin, Alexander E ^b   Joosu, Lauri ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NONE

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EID: 84871045551     PISSN: 18634621     EISSN: 1863463X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29670-3_7     Document Type: Article

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