Filamentous microfossils from the 3,500-Myr-old Onverwacht Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa

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  1985

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1985-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geology

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  DOI 10.1038/314530A0
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