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An Estimate of the Age of the Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur Holmes
Arthur Holmes
Affiliation:
Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh.
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Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , April 1947 , pp. 123 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

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