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Biomineralization . Patricia M. Dove, James J. De Yoreo, and Steve Weiner, Eds. Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Washington, DC, 2003. 395 pp. Paper, $36. ISBN 0-939950-66-9. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 54. The contributors offer specialists and nonspecialists alike a comprehensive introduction to the processes of biological mineralization and to the effects of these processes on Earth history.
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