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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-415-2011
© Author(s) 2011. This work is distributed under
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Productivity patterns and N-fixation associated with Pliocene-Holocene sapropels: paleoceanographic and paleoecological significance
D. Gallego-Torres
Utrecht University Faculty of Geosciences (Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry) Budapestlaan, 4, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002 Granada, Spain
F. Martinez-Ruiz
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR) Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002 Granada, Spain
P. A. Meyers
Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA
A. Paytan
Institute of Marine Sciences, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, Univ. of Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
F. J. Jimenez-Espejo
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR) Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002 Granada, Spain
M. Ortega-Huertas
Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002 Granada, Spain
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- Transient oxygenation of the Mediterranean after the Zanclean megaflood U. Amarathunga et al. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505429122
- Constraining the drivers of barium isotope composition in marine barite: Insights from Pliocene-Holocene Eastern Mediterranean sapropels R. Monedero-Contreras et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.11.042
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