Ironstone pods in the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Earth's oldest seafloor hydrothermal vents reinterpreted as Quaternary subaerial springs
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Geological Society of America in Geology
- Vol. 31 (10), 909
- https://doi.org/10.1130/g19664.1
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