Oligocene grasses in southwestern Europe during the Early 4 Isotopic evidence of C
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doi: 10.1130/G31117.1 2010;38;1091-1094 Geology Pearson and Feng Sheng Hu Michael A. Urban, David M. Nelson, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Jean-Jacques Châteauneuf, Ann Middle Miocene − Oligocene grasses in southwestern Europe during the Early 4 Isotopic evidence of C Email alerting services articles cite this article to receive free e-mail alerts when new www.gsapubs.org/cgi/alerts click Subscribe to subscribe to Geology www.gsapubs.org/subscriptions/ click Permission request to contact GSA http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/copyrt.htm#gsa click official positions of the Society. citizenship, gender, religion, or political viewpoint. Opinions presented in this publication do not reflect presentation of diverse opinions and positions by scientists worldwide, regardless of their race, includes a reference to the article's full citation. GSA provides this and other forums for the the abstracts only of their articles on their own or their organization's Web site providing the posting to further education and science. This file may not be posted to any Web site, but authors may post works and to make unlimited copies of items in GSA's journals for noncommercial use in classrooms requests to GSA, to use a single figure, a single table, and/or a brief paragraph of text in subsequent their employment. Individual scientists are hereby granted permission, without fees or further Copyright not claimed on content prepared wholly by U.S. government employees within scope of
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