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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
Volume 34, 1987 - Issue 3
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Experiments on convection and their relevance to the genesis of massive sulphide deposits

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Pages 311-323 | Received 19 May 1986, Accepted 18 Sep 1986, Published online: 01 Aug 2007

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