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Isolated pods of subaqueous welded ash-flow tuff: a distal facies of the Capel Curig Volcanic Formation (Ordovician), North Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. J. Branney
M. J. Branney
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyUniversity of SheffieldMappin StreetSheffieldS1 3JD
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Geological Magazine , Volume 123 , Issue 5 , September 1986 , pp. 589 - 590
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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