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Asphalt Volcanism

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  1. MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Post Box 330 440, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Gerhard Bohrmann

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  1. Gerhard Bohrmann
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  1. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Jan Harff

  2. University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

    Martin Meschede

  3. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany

    Sven Petersen

  4. Institute of Earth Science, KÖPPEN-Laboratory, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    JÖrn Thiede

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Bohrmann, G. (2016). Asphalt Volcanism. In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6238-1_1

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