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Comments on Early Tertiary tectonism and lateritization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Brian McGowran
Brian McGowran
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Department of Geology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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Geological Magazine , Volume 116 , Issue 3 , May 1979, pp. 227 - 230
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