Variation in the fine-grained granites of the land's end pluton

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 157-164

  Salmon, S ^a   Powell, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

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