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Advection of pore fluids through sediments in the equatorial East pacific

F L Sayles, W J Jenkins

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |July 16, 1982
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    pore fluid advectionmarine sediment transporthelium isotope analysisoceanic fluid dynamics

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