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Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (central Australia): an Australian story with a Martian twist

Pages 291-314 | Received 12 Oct 2012, Accepted 27 Jan 2013, Published online: 22 May 2013

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Paul Carr, Malcolm Southwood, Brian Jones & Graeme Dowton. (2023) Opal Pineapples from White Cliffs New South Wales, Australia. Rocks & Minerals 98:5, pages 404-417.
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Boris Chauviré, Valentin Mollé, Florine Guichard, Benjamin Rondeau, Paul Stephen Thomas & Emmanuel Fritsch. (2023) Cracking of Gem Opals. Minerals 13:3, pages 356.
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Jürgen Herrmann & Roland Maas. (2022) Formation of Sediment-Hosted Opal-A G at Lightning Ridge (New South Wales, Australia): Refining the Deep Weathering Model . The Journal of Geology 130:2, pages 77-110.
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Robert J. Musgrave & Kathryn Job. (2020) Palaeomagnetism of the Dundas–Fossey Trough, Tasmania: Oroclinal rotation and Late Cretaceous overprinting. Tectonophysics 786, pages 228453.
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Matt A. White, Phil R. Bell, Stephen F. Poropat, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Alex G. Cook, Trish Sloan & David A. Elliott. (2020) New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia. Royal Society Open Science 7:1, pages 191462.
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Lachlan J. Hart, Phil R. Bell, Elizabeth T. Smith & Steven W. Salisbury. (2019) Isisfordia molnari sp. nov . , a new basal eusuchian from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia . PeerJ 7, pages e7166.
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Boris Chauviré, Benjamin Rondeau, Anne Alexandre, Sarah Chamard-Bois, Carole La & Francesco Mazzero. (2019) Pedogenic origin of precious opals from Wegel Tena (Ethiopia): Evidence from trace elements and oxygen isotopes. Applied Geochemistry 101, pages 127-139.
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