Late- to post-Variscan structures on the coast between penzance and pentewan, South Cornwall

Geoscience in South-West England

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 72-78

  Alexander, A C ^a   Shall, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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