The Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, Southern England: A guide to lithostratigraphic terms

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2002, Pages 7-11

  Ensom, Paul C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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