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Burial of organic carbon and carbonate on inner
shelf of the northern South China Sea during the postglacial period
- YANG Shouye1, YIM Wyss W.-S.2, TANG Min2, HUANG Guangqing3
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1.State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University; 2.Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong; 3.Guangzhou Institutes of Geography, 100 Xian Lie Road;
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