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Notes on the Amazon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. L. Sherlock
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Extract

So little is known about the geology of the Amazon that it seems worth while recording a few observations made during a recent journey up that river.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , March 1934 , pp. 112 - 116
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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