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Original Articles

Depth distribution of Recent deep‐sea benthic foraminifera east of New Zealand, and their potential for improving paleobathymetric assessments of Neogene microfaunas

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Pages 555-587 | Received 15 Sep 2000, Accepted 27 Jul 2001, Published online: 23 Mar 2010

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