The Great Artesian Basin and the Limestone Mound Springs, Australia
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0016-7630,1349-9963
DOI: 10.5575/geosoc.110.4.vii_viii