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Originally published in Science Express on 11 May 2006
Science 16 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5780, pp. 1605 - 1606
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128966
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: The Pathway of Carbon in Nature

John M. Hayes

A complex web of reactions leads from primary biological products to the organic debris found in sediments and rocks. A new study shows that abiotic reactions play an important role.

The author is in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. E-mail: jhayes{at}whoi.edu

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