Articles | Volume 8, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-3531-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-3531-2011
Reviews and syntheses
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02 Dec 2011
Reviews and syntheses |  | 02 Dec 2011

Where microorganisms meet rocks in the Earth's Critical Zone

D. M. Akob and K. Küsel

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