The Mesoproterozoic – no “boring billion”

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Uwe-M. Troppenz ¹ , Sven Littkowski ²

1 - Naturforschende Gesellschaft Mecklenburg, Natureum, Ludwigslust, Germany
2 - Jamaica Focus Media Stream Corporation, Kingston, Jamaica

Received: 2019-06-10 Accepted : 2019-11-30 Published : 2019-10-01

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