Low-temperature (<110°C) thermal history of the Mt Isa and Murphy Inliers, northeast Australia: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology Footnote*

Table 1 [indicated by an asterisk (*) in the text and listed at the end of the paper] is a Supplementary Paper; copies may be obtained from the Geological Society of Australia's website (<www.gsa.org.au>) or from the National Library of Australia's Pandora archive (<http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-25194>).

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