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Fine structure in degraded, ancient and buried wood, and in other fossilized plant derivatives. II

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Sen, J. Fine structure in degraded, ancient and buried wood, and in other fossilized plant derivatives. II. Bot. Rev 29, 230–242 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860822

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