Isotopes, ice ages, and terminal Proterozoic earth history.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on June 24, 1997

Authors

A J Kaufman1, A H Knoll, G M Narbonne

Author Affiliations

1: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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