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Further notes on the strontium contents of unaltered fossil cephalopod shells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Hallam  and
N. B. Price
A. Hallam
Affiliation:
Department of Geology And Mineralogy, University of Oxford.
N. B. Price
Affiliation:
Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh.
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Summary

A likely example of biochemical evolution in the nautiloids is demonstrated, based on X-ray fluorescence analysis of the Sr content of unaltered shells.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 52 - 55
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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