Mummified Seal Carcasses in the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica

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• Publication year

  1959

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1959-09-18

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.130.3377.716PMID 14432467
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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