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Colin Farmer (1920-2006)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

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Clay Minerals , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 693 - 695
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2006

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