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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
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Late Permian to Cainozoic tectonics of the New England Orogen

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Pages 181-203 | Received 29 Jan 1981, Published online: 01 Aug 2007

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