New records of Ediacaran Acraman ejecta in drillholes from the Stuart Shelf and Officer Basin, South Australia

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1883-1891

  Hill, Andrew C ^a   Haines, Peter W ^b   Grey, Kathleen ^b   Willman, Sebastian ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 41549147415     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00547.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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