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Possible Devonian Uplift on the Swansea Valley Fault, Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

I. P. Tunbridge
Affiliation:
Dept of Environmental Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon.
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