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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
3 The Record of the Rocks | 20 |
5 Erosion | 66 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Principles of Geology Series of geology texts |
| Authors | James Gilluly, Aaron Clement Waters, Alfred Oswald Woodford |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W.H. Freeman, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 534 pages |
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