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Article: Microbes, mud and methane: cause and consequence of recurrent Early Jurassic anoxia following the end-Triassic mass extinction

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2013
Page(s): 685 – 709
Author(s): Bas van de Schootbrugge, Aviv Bachan, Guillaume Suan, Sylvain Richoz and Jonathan L. Payne
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DE SCHOOTBRUGGE, B., BACHAN, A., SUAN, G., RICHOZ, S., PAYNE, J. L. 2013. Microbes, mud and methane: cause and consequence of recurrent Early Jurassic anoxia following the end-Triassic mass extinction. Palaeontology, 56, 4, 685–709.

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