Geochemical fingerprinting of west Cornish greenstones as an aid to provenancing neolithic axes

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 218-223

  Markham, M ^a   Floyd, P A ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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