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Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record

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Pages 929-952 | Received 15 Nov 2021, Accepted 03 Apr 2022, Published online: 09 May 2022

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