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The Solway Line is not the Iapetus suture

CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. M. Allen
P. M. Allen
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, 30 Pennsylvania Road, ExeterDevon, EX4 6BX, U.K.
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Geological Magazine , Volume 124 , Issue 5 , September 1987 , pp. 485 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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