Exceptional preservation of palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Melendez, Ines ^a   Grice, Kliti ^a   Schwark, Lorenz ^a,b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; CRUSTACEA; FOSSIL; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENT; TIME; ARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84885115017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02768     Document Type: Article

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