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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
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Comparison of tropical, carbonate and temperate, siliciclastic tidally dominated sedimentary deposits: Examples from the Australian continental shelf

Pages 241-254 | Published online: 09 May 2007

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