Petrography and character of the bedrock surface beneath western Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 230-241

  Hallett, Benjamin W ^a   Poppe, Lawrence J ^a   Brand, Stephen G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CH2M HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; PETROLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GADUS MORHUA; MICA;

EID: 4644259713     PISSN: 01941453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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