SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2017-12-18

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1718063115PMID 29255053PMCID PMC5776830
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