Early diagenetic sulphide minerals in the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-332

  Pirrie, D ^a   Beer, A J ^a   Camm, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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