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Résultats de l'expédition géologique de l'Université de Harvard dans les montagnes Rocheuses du Canada (Jasper National Park), 1929.
Note n° 4: la coupe de Mural Glacier et le chevauchement du Mumm Peak (Alberta)
COLLET, Léon William, PARÉJAS, Edouard
COLLET, Léon William, PARÉJAS, Edouard. Résultats de l'expédition géologique de l'Université de Harvard dans les montagnes Rocheuses du Canada (Jasper National Park), 1929. Note n° 4:
la coupe de Mural Glacier et le chevauchement du Mumm Peak (Alberta). Compte rendu des séances de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 1932, vol. 49, no.
1, p. 36-40
DOI : 10.5169/SEALS-740794
Available at:
http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:137291
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