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A subaerial stromatolite from the Lower Carboniferous of South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

V. P. Wright
V. P. Wright
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, P.O. Box 78, Cardiff 28th April 1980
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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 97 - 100
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