Conjugated enrichments in arsenic and antimony in marine deposits used as paleoenvironmental proxies: preliminary results

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 192, 2021


Article Number		39
Number of page(s)		11
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021034
Published online		22 September 2021

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