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On the beerbachites from Freetown, Sierra Leone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. C. Umeji
A. C. Umeji
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Department of GeologyUniversity of NigeriaNsukka, Nigeria
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Geological Magazine , Volume 122 , Issue 6 , November 1985 , pp. 663 - 667
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