Bornhardt inselbergs in the Salt River Valley, south of Kellerberrin, Western Australia (with notes on a tesselated pavement in granite and pinnacles in laterite)

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-49

  Twidale, C R ^a   Bourne, J A ^a   Vidal Romani, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOME; GRANITE; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032709157     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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