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Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa

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Ovechkina, Maria N., Bylinskaya, Marina E., Uken, Ron (2010): Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa. African Invertebrates 51 (2): 231, DOI: 10.5733/afin.051.0202, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.051.0202

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