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Comments on the paper ‘Fission-track dating of British Ordovician and Silurian stratotypes’ by R. J. Ross and others

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. H. Gale  and
R. D. Beckinsale
N. H. Gale
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Parks Road., Oxford, OX1 3PR
R. D. Beckinsale
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, (NERC), Exhibition Road, London, SW7.
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Geological Magazine , Volume 120 , Issue 3 , May 1983 , pp. 295 - 302
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