Invited comment on Wray & Gale's 'The palaeoenvironment and stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Chalks'

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-171

  Hopson, Peter M ^a   Woods, Mark A ^a   Aldiss, Don T ^a   Ellison, Richard A ^a   Farrant, Andrew R ^a   Booth, Kathryn A ^a   Wilkinson, Ian P ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745610163     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(06)80007-6     Document Type: Note

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