Kaolinized Devonian metasediments adjacent to the St Austell granite, Cornwall

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-262

  Bristow, C M ^a   Scott, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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