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The Ordovician batholith of the English Lake District

Correspondence and Notes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. J. Soper
N. J. Soper
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldS1 3JDU.K., 19 January 1987
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Geological Magazine , Volume 124 , Issue 5 , September 1987 , pp. 481 - 482
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