Carboniferous-Permian boundary in Kansas, Midcontinent, U.S.A

Current Research in Earth Sciences

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Sawin, Robert S ^a   West, Ronald R ^b   Franseen, Evan K ^a   Watney, W Lynn ^a   McCauley, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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