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2. Convergence of terrestrial plant
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Sean
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3. A global ocean inventory of
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Carl
H. Lamborg, Chad R. Hammerschmidt, Katlin L. Bowman, Gretchen J. Swarr,
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◎Nature Communications
4. Formation of recent Pb-Ag-Au
mineralization by potential sub-surface microbial activity
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Tornos, Francisco Velasco, César Menor-Salván, Antonio Delgado, John F. Slack
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◎Science
5.
Centennial changes in North Pacific anoxia linked to tropical trade winds
Curtis Deutsch, William Berelson, Robert Thunell,
Thomas Weber, Caitlin Tems, James McManus, John Crusius, Taka Ito, Timothy
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◎PNAS
6. Footprint of
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Charles R. Fisher, Pen-Yuan Hsing, Carl
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Timothy M. Shank, Samantha P. Berlet, Miles G. Saunders, Elizabeth A. Larcom,
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7. Testing for
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8. Large
sulfur-isotope anomaly in nonvolcanic sulfate aerosol and its implications for
the Archean atmosphere
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9. Rare events in earth history include the
LB1 human skeleton from Flores, Indonesia, as a developmental singularity, not
a unique taxon
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