Proterozoic geology of the Granite village area, Albany and Laramie Counties, Wyoming, compared with that of the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming

US Geological Survey Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 2159, 1997, Pages

  Houston, Robert S ^a   Marlatt, Gordon ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE

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METAVOLCANIC ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SUTURE ZONE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344958840     PISSN: 00831093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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