Rancho La Brea: status and future

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Paleobiology

• Publication date

  1983-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/S0094837300007648
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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