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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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This shows a light yellow lamina of dolomite within dark mud of siliceous algae (diatoms). Such dolomite layers, which may contain also barite and enrichments of archaeol, indicate the depths of ancient sulphate-methane transition zones.

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MPI for Marine Microbiology

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