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Palaeontological Evidence for the Age of the English Wealden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. F. Hughes
N. F. Hughes
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

Plant microspores and megaspores are used to correlate the separate occurrences of the English Wealden with the marine Lower Cretaceous of Lincolnshire and with a Netherlands succession. The paper is a preliminary statement on the representation of the Continental stages in the English Wealden.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , February 1958 , pp. 41 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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