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On Hutton's authorship of an ‘Abstract of a Dissertation…concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

K. J. Tinkler
K. J. Tinkler
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Department of GeographyBrock UniversitySt Catharine's Ontario L2S 3A 1, Canada
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Geological Magazine , Volume 120 , Issue 6 , December 1983 , pp. 631 - 634
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