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Russell S Harmon1, Daria Khashchevskaya1, Michelle Morency1

  • 1Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
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PubMed

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desert pavementgeochemical fingerprintinglaser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)microchemical mappingrock varnish

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