Biostratigraphic constraints on chronostratigraphic intraformational relationships within the lower–middle Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Laurentian margin: Eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, Canada

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 559-574

  Hersi, Osman Salad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

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EID: 84897080352     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1306/13331507M983506     Document Type: Chapter

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