Air-fall tuffs in the Southern Highland Group, Dalradian Supergroup, at Birnam, Perthshire

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-72

  Batchelor, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DALRADIAN; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; TUFF; VOLCANIC ASH;

BIRNAM; EURASIA; EUROPE; PERTH AND KINROSS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2042449987     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg40010067     Document Type: Article

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