Micropalaeontological investigations of the oxford clay - Corallian succession of the dorset coast

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-13

  Oxford, M J ^a   Hart, M B ^a   Watkinson, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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