Importance and Usefulness of Trace Fossils and Bioturbation in Paleoceanography

Trace Fossils

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 413-427

  Löwemark, Ludvig ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452949-7/50150-9     Document Type: Chapter

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