Coevolution of Life and Earth

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages 295-320

  Retallack, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00150-4     Document Type: Chapter

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