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Submarine hydrothermal/hot spring deposition of Early Cambrian Niutitang Formation in South China

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40743016), the Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20070616014), the SINOPEC Project (No. G0800-06-ZS-319), and the Wengfu Phosphate Industry.

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Lin, L., Pang, Y., Ma, L. et al. Submarine hydrothermal/hot spring deposition of Early Cambrian Niutitang Formation in South China. J. Earth Sci. 21 (Suppl 1), 40–43 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-010-0165-2

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