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01 Sep 2011
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Repeated bottom-water oxygenation during OAE 2: timing and duration of short-lived benthic foraminiferal repopulation events (Wunstorf, northern Germany)
Oliver Friedrich
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Silke Voigt
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tanja Kuhnt
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Mirjam C. Koch
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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