The environment recording unit in coral skeletons
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The environment recording unit in coral skeletons: structural and chemical evidences of a biochemically driven stepping-growth process in coral fibres J. P. Cuif and Y. Dauphin Université Paris XI-Orsay, Bat. 504, Géologie ,UMR IDES, F-91405 Orsay, France Université Paris VI-UPMC, Micropaléontologie, t. 46–56 E5, 4 place Jussieu, UMR IDESF, F-75252 Paris cedex 05, France Received: 31 August 2004 – Accepted: 21 September 2004 – Published: 29 September 2004 Correspondence to: J. P. Cuif ([email protected])
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