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Great Phanerozoic Crises: The Mass Extinction Series - The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian-Famennian Crisis. George R. McGhee Columbia University Press, New York.1996. 378 pages, $49.50; paperback, $20.00.

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Paul Copper
Paul Copper*
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Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Ransey Lake Road, Sudbury Ontario, P3E 2C6 Canada
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Paleobiology , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , Fall 1996 , pp. 568 - 572
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