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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
Volume 54, 2007 - Issue 1
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Landscape and regolith features related to Miocene leucitite lava flows, El Capitan northeast of Cobar, New South Wales

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Pages 1-17 | Received 13 Dec 2005, Accepted 22 Jul 2006, Published online: 15 Jan 2007

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