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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
Volume 41, 1994 - Issue 5
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Origin of aragonite in a continental saline seep, north Queensland

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Pages 497-503 | Received 24 Sep 1993, Published online: 09 May 2007

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