Field relationships and petrology of the Late Devonian Fisset Brook Formation in the Cheticamp area, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-132

  Barr, Sandra M ^a   Peterson, Kevin C A ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FIELD SURVEY; MAFIC ROCK; PETROLOGY; RHYOLITE;

CANADA;

EID: 0032409707     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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