Microbial colonization of various habitable niches during alteration of oceanic crust

Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 69-111

  Ivarsson, Magnus ^a   Holm, Nils G ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

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