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Comments on the letter ‘In defence of the external detector method of fission track dating’ by P. F. Green

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. H. Gale
N. H. Gale
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Department of Geology & MineralogyUniversity of OxfordParks Road Oxford OX1 3PR
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Geological Magazine , Volume 122 , Issue 2 , March 1985 , pp. 191 - 194
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