Invited comments on John Clemens's 'Granites and magmas' with Rejoinder by J. D. Clemens

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-32

  Brown, Michael ^a   Clemens, John D ^b   Pitcher, Wallace S ^d   Vernon, Ron H ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; MAGMATISM;

EID: 19644387734     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(05)80014-8     Document Type: Article

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