The desert sandstone of Australia a late nineteenth-century enigma of deposition, fossils, and weathering

Earth Sciences History

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 208-256

  Branagan, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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