Reply: Apatite (U-Th)/He age constraints on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the Bathurst region, New South Wales: Evidence for antiquity of the continental drainage divide along a passive margin

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1009-1020

  Persano, C ^a   Bishop, P ^a   Stuart, F M ^a  

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EID: 34548411763     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120090701488339     Document Type: Note

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