Origin of Messel Oil Shale kerogen

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1988-12-01

• Fields of study

  Chemistry, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/336759A0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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