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Lake George revisited: new evidence for the origin and evolution of a large closed lake, Southern Tablelands, NSW, Australia. 2: earliest Pleistocene (Gelasian) environments

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Pages 453-468 | Received 07 Mar 2016, Accepted 21 Jun 2016, Published online: 24 Aug 2016

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