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01 Nov 2006
| 01 Nov 2006
Celebrating 25 years of advances in micropalaeontology: a review
F. John Gregory
PetroStrat Ltd, 33 Royston Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 5NF & Palaeontology Department, NHM, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (e-mail: )
Howard A. Armstrong
Department of Earth Science, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK (e-mail: )
Ian Boomer
Stable Isotope & Luminescence Laboratory (SILLA) School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK (e-mail: )
Rainer Gersonde
Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar & Marine Research, Postbox 120161, Bremerhaven, Germany (e-mail: )
Ian Harding
School of Ocean & Earth Science, NOC, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK (e-mail: )
Jens O. Herrle
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1–26 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada (e-mail: )
David Lazarus
Museum für Naturkunde, 10115 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: )
Daniela N. Schmidt
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK (e-mail: )
Joachim Schoenfeld
Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Dienstgebaeude Ostufer, Wischhofstraat 1–3, D–24148 Kiel, Germany (e-mail: )
Jeremy R. Young
Palaeontology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (e-mail: )
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