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An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
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Neotectonic disruption of silicified palaeovalley systems in an intraplate, cratonic landscape: Regolith and landscape evolution of the Mulculca range‐front, Broken Hill Domain, New South Wales

S. M. Hill CRC LEME, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
,
R. A. Eggleton CRC LEME, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
&
G. Taylor University of Canberra, ACT, 2001, Australia
Pages 691-707 | Published online: 08 Nov 2010

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