A new look at the post-Variscan evolution of south-west England

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Cope, John C W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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