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SAJAL SHARMA, GEORGE R. DIX, and MIKE VILLENEUVE

Petrology and potential tectonic significance of a K-bentonite in a Taconian shale basin (eastern Ontario, Canada), northern Appalachians
Geological Magazine 2005 142: 145-158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J. DOSTAL, J. D. KEPPIE, M. A. HAMILTON, E. M. AARAB, J. P. LEFORT, and J. B. MURPHY

Crustal xenoliths in Triassic lamprophyre dykes in western Morocco: tectonic implications for the Rheic Ocean suture
Geological Magazine 2005 142: 159-172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

GAVIN C. YOUNG

An articulated phyllolepid fish (Placodermi) from the Devonian of central Australia: implications for non-marine connections with the Old Red Sandstone continent
Geological Magazine 2005 142: 173-186. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

N. ILBEYLI

Mineralogical–geochemical constraints on intrusives in central Anatolia, Turkey: tectono-magmatic evolution and characteristics of mantle source
Geological Magazine 2005 142: 187-207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. A. BATCHELOR

Tephra-fall deposits in the Sleat Group (Torridonian), Isle of Skye, Scotland
Geological Magazine 2005 142: 209-215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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GUBBINS, D. 2004. Time Series Analysis and Inverse Theory for Geophysicists.: xv + 255 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £70.00 (hard covers), £27.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 81965 2; 0 521 52569 1 (pb).
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KARATO, S. 2003. The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth. An Interdisciplinary Approach.: xi + 241 pp. Princeton, Chichester: Princeton University Press. Price £24.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 691 09511 6.
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SANCHEZ -VILLAGRA, M. R. & CLACK, J. A. (eds) 2004. Fossils of the Miocene Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions in Neotropical Palaeontology.: Special Papers in Palaeontology no. 71. 112 pp. London: The Palaeontological Association. Price £48.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 901702 82 X.
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KRONK, G. W. 2003. Cometography. A Catalog of Comets. Volume 2: 1800–1899.: xiii + 837 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £120.00, US $185.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 58505 8.
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Simon Conway Morris

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GASPARIK, T. 2003. Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists. An Atlas of the Earth’s Interior.: xi + 462 pp. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. Price Euros 149.95 (plus VAT at local rate), SFr 242.50, £105.00, US $ 169.00 (hard covers). ISBN 3 540 00248 0.
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MERRITT, J. W., AUTON, C. A., CONNELL, E. R., HALL, A. M. & PEACOCK, J. D. 2003. Cainozoic geology and landscape evolution of north-east Scotland. Memoir for the drift editions of 1:50 000 geological sheets 66E Banchory, 67 Stonehaven, 76E Inverurie, 77 Aberdeen, 86E Turriff, 87W Ellon, 87E Peterhead, 95 Elgin, 96W Portsoy, 96E Banff and 97 Fraserburgh (Scotland).: Edinburgh: British Geological Survey. x + 178 pp. + CD-ROM. Price £40.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 85 272463 2.
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