Vegetation-induced, subsurface precipitation of carbonate as an aggradational process in the permanent swamps of the Okavango (delta) fan, Botswana

Chemical Geology - Tập 107 - Trang 111-131 - 1993
T.S. McCarthy1, W.N. Ellery2, Karen Ellery2
1Department of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
2Department of Botany, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa

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