Letter to the editor: Have local stages outlived their usefulness for the New Zealand Pliocene-Pleistocene?

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 601-602

  Scott, George ^a  

^a NONE   (New Zealand)

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EID: 30544444826     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2001.9514957     Document Type: Letter

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