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Boron Content in Relation to Organic Carbon and to Palaeosalinity in Certain British Upper Carboniferous Sediments

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  2. Department of Geology, University of Sheffield,

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EAGAR, R., SPEARS, D. Boron Content in Relation to Organic Carbon and to Palaeosalinity in Certain British Upper Carboniferous Sediments. Nature 209, 177–181 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209177a0

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