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Petrographic evidence bearing on plate tectonics of the Upper Ordovician Welsh Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. M. D. James
D. M. D. James
Affiliation:
Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij, Postbus 162, Den Haag, Holland 16th July 1980
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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 95 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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