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Precambrian geochronology in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. B. Harland
W. B. Harland
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Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
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Geological Magazine , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , March 1983 , pp. 195 - 203
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