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Journal articles on the topic "Devonian volcanic rocks"
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D’hulst, Alan, Georges Beaudoin, Michel Malo, Marc Constantin, and Pierre Pilote. "Geochemistry of Sainte-Marguerite volcanic rocks: implications for the evolution of Silurian–Devonian volcanism in the Gaspé Peninsula." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e07-012.
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The Lower Devonian Sainte-Marguerite volcanic rocks are part of a Silurian–Devonian volcanic sequence deposited between the Taconian and Acadian orogenies in the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. The Sainte-Marguerite unit includes basaltic and dacitic lava flows with calc-alkaline and volcanic-arc affinities. Such affinities are also recorded by the trace-element signature in Lower Silurian and most Lower Devonian volcanic units of the Gaspé Peninsula. However, most of the other Silurian–Devonian volcanic rocks occurring in the Gaspé Peninsula have been previously interpreted to have erupted in an intracontinental setting. A back-arc setting for the Gaspé Peninsula between the Taconian and Acadian orogenies could account for these subduction volcanic-arc signatures, though a metasomatized lithospheric mantle magma source, unrelated to subduction, cannot be excluded. Lower Silurian and Lower Devonian volcanic rocks in the central part of the Gaspé Peninsula show an arc affinity, whereas Upper Silurian and Lower to Middle Devonian volcanic rocks, located in the south and north of the Gaspé Peninsula, respectively, show a within-plate affinity. The Lower Devonian Archibald Settlement and Boutet volcanic rocks of the southern and northern Gaspé Peninsula, respectively, show a trend toward a within-plate affinity. This suggests that within-plate volcanism migrated from south to north through time in an evolving back-arc environment and that the subduction signature of Lower Silurian and Lower Devonian rocks results from a source that melted only under the central part of the Gaspé Peninsula.
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Brown, Derek A., James M. Logan, Michael H. Gunning, Michael J. Orchard, and Wayne E. Bamber. "Stratigraphic evolution of the Paleozoic Stikine assemblage in the Stikine and Iskut rivers area, northwestern British Columbia." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28, no. 6 (June 1, 1991): 958–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-087.
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The Stikine assemblage, the "basement" of Stikinia, extends 500 km along the western flank of the Intermontane Belt, east of younger Coast Belt plutons. Four different stratigraphic successions are characteristic of Lower to Middle Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian rocks in the Stikine and Iskut rivers area. West of Forrest Kerr Creek are penetratively deformed Lower to Middle Devonian island-arc volcaniclastic rocks, coralline limestone, and felsic tuff. Fringing carbonate buildups in an arc setting are best illustrated in the sequence at Round Lake where Lower Carboniferous mafic-dominated, bimodal submarine volcanic rocks grade upward into two distinctive coarse echinoderm limestone units and medial siliceous siltstone and limestone conglomerate. Conodont colour alteration indices for Lower Carboniferous rocks near Newmont Lake indicate an anomalously low-temperature thermal history. Upper Carboniferous–Permian polymictic volcanic conglomerate and Lower Permian limestone overlie these strata there. The Scud River sequence is distinguished by subgreenschist- to greenschist-grade Carboniferous(?) volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlain by a structurally thickened package (greater than 1000 m) of Lower Permian limestone. Local calcalkaline pyroclastic rocks interfinger with limestone near the top of the Scud River sequence. Basinal, shelf, and shallow-water carbonate facies developed in the Early Permian, giving way to calcalkaline volcanism in Late Permian followed by deposition of deep-water chert and argillite.The tectonic setting during the Devonian and Carboniferous is comparable with modern Pacific volcanic arcs and atolls, but there is no modern analogue for the shelf-carbonate accumulation during the Early Permian which characterizes the Stikine assemblage and permits Cordilleran-scale correlations. Permian fusulinid and coral species have very close affinity to those of the McCloud Limestone of the eastern Klamath Mountains, California. Other geologic events common to both Stikinia and the Eastern Klamath terrane are Devonian limestone breccia deposition, Lower Permian limestone accumulation with McCloud faunal affinity, Carboniferous and Permian calcalkaline volcanism, and Upper Permian tuffaceous limestone. Stratigraphic differences include the absence of quartz detritus in Devonian strata and lack of thick Upper Permian volcanic rocks in the Stikine River area.
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Dostal, J., R. Laurent, and J. D. Keppie. "Late Silurian – Early Devonian rifting during dextral transpression in the southern Gaspé Peninsula (Quebec): petrogenesis of volcanic rocks." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30, no. 12 (December 1, 1993): 2283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-198.
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The Upper Silurian – Lower Devonian volcanic rocks in the southern Gaspé Peninsula of the Quebec Appalachians crop out at the northeast end of the Connecticut Valley – Gaspé Synclinorium. These shallow marine and subaerial sequences reach a thickness of up to at least 2000 m and comprise two groups: (1) the Late Silurian volcanic rocks, which are mainly transitional alkalic–tholeiitic basalts with steeply sloping REE patterns; (2) the Early Devonian volcanic rocks, which include a significant proportion of intermediate rocks in addition to tholeiitic basalts. Compared with the Silurian rocks, the Devonian basalts have lower abundances of strongly incompatible trace elements such as Ba, Th, Ta, Nb, and light REE and relatively flat heavy REE patterns. Basalts of both groups display negative Nb and Ta anomalies (relative to Th and La).Although the basalts of both sequences were derived from lithospheric mantle, the Silurian basalts were generated from garnet peridotite at ~ 80 km depth while the Devonian basalts appear to have resulted from a larger degree of melting of spinel peridotite at a shallower depth (~ 60 km). Devonian intermediate rocks are probably the result of mixing of the basaltic magma with upper crustal material through assimilation – fractional crystallization processes. The basalts are interpreted to have formed in a northwest-trending rift zone located in the Quebec Reentrant during dextral transpression along the Appalachian Orogen. Rotation during and after the volcanism reoriented the rift zone to a northeast trend. The high density layer at the base of the crust under the Magdalen Basin may be the former magma chamber for the Silurian–Devonian volcanism. The change from transitional to tholeiitic volcanism at the Silurian–Devonian boundary suggests that the stretching value (ratio of final to initial surface area) increased from < 2 to > 2 at that time. This boundary is also coincident with the Salinic disturbance that is inferred to have been produced by erosion of the thermally uplifted block associated with rifting.
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Petrov, G. A., N. I. Tristan, G. N. Borozdina, and A. V. Maslov. "The final stage of the Acid Island Arc magmatism in the Northern Urals." Доклады Академии наук 489, no. 2 (November 20, 2019): 166–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0869-56524892166-169.
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For the first time, the time of completion of the formation of calc-alkaline volcanic complexes of the Devonian Island Arc (Franian) in the Northern Urals was determined. It is shown that the late Devonian volcanic rocks of the Limka series have geochemical characteristics that bring them closer to the rocks of developed island arcs and active continental margins. The detected delay of the final episode of calc-alkaline volcanism in the Northern Urals in comparison with the similar event in the southern Urals may be due to the oblique nature of the subduction.
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Barr, Sandra M., and Rebecca A. Jamieson. "Tectonic setting and regional correlation of Ordovician–Silurian rocks of the Aspy terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28, no. 11 (November 1, 1991): 1769–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-158.
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Interlayered mafic and felsic metavolcanic rocks and metasedimentary rocks of Ordovician to Silurian age are characteristic of the Aspy terrane of northwestern Cape Breton Island. These rocks were affected by medium- to high-grade metamorphism and were intruded by synkinematic granitoid orthogneisses during Late Silurian to Early Devonian times. They were intruded by posttectonic Devonian granitic plutons and experienced rapid Devonian decompression and cooling. The chemical characteristics of the mafic metavolcanic rocks indicate that they are tholeiites formed in a volcanic-arc setting. The volcanic rocks of the Aspy terrane differ from many other Silurian and Silurian–Devonian successions in Atlantic Canada, which have chemical and stratigraphic characteristics of volcanic rocks formed in extensional within-plate settings, and are somewhat younger than the Aspy terrane sequences. Aspy terrane units are most similar to Ordovician–Silurian volcanic and metamorphic units in southwestern Newfoundland, including the La Poile Group and the Port aux Basques gneiss. Together with other occurrences of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian volcanic-arc units, they indicate that subduction-related compressional tectonics continued into the Silurian in parts of the northern Appalachian Orogen. The complex Late Silurian – Devonian tectonic history of the Aspy terrane may reflect collision with the southeastern edge of a Grenvillian crustal promentory.
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Rosa, D. R. N., A. A. Finch, T. Andersen, and C. M. C. Inverno. "U-Pb geochronology of felsic volcanic rocks hosted in the Gafo Formation, South Portuguese Zone: the relationship with Iberian Pyrite Belt magmatism." Mineralogical Magazine 72, no. 5 (October 2008): 1103–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2008.072.5.1103.
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AbstractFelsic volcanic rocks exposed in the Frasnian Gafo Formation, in the Azinhalinho area of Portugal, display very similar geochemical signatures to volcanic rocks from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). located immediately to the south. The similarities include anomalously low high field-strength elements (HFSE) concentrations, possibly caused by low-temperature crustal melting, which translate into classification problems.A geochronological study, using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of zircon grains from these rocks, has provided concordia ages of 356±1.5 Ma and 355±2.5 Ma for two samples of rhyodacite porphyry, and 356±1.4 Ma for a granular rhyodacite. These results show that volcanism at Azinhalinho was broadly contemporaneous with IPB volcanism, widely interpreted as being of Famennian to Visean age. Considering that the host rocks of the Azinhalinho volcanic rocks are Frasnian, and therefore deposited synchronously with the Upper Devonian Phyllite-Quartzite Group sedimentation in the IPB basin, the radiometric ages imply that the Azinhalinho felsic rocks are intrusive and likely represent conduits or feeders to the volcanism of the IPB.
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Dunning, Greg R., Sandra M. Barr, Peter S. Giles, D. Colin McGregor, Georgia Pe-Piper, and David JW Piper. "Chronology of Devonian to early Carboniferous rifting and igneous activity in southern Magdalen Basin based on U-Pb (zircon) dating." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 8 (August 1, 2002): 1219–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-037.
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Fifteen UPb (zircon) radiometric age determinations have been made on igneous rocks of Middle Devonian to Early Carboniferous age from the southern margin of the Magdalen basin in Cape Breton Island and northern mainland Nova Scotia. Volcanic rocks interbed with early rift-basin sedimentary rocks with some palynological biostratigraphy; dated intrusive rocks cut these sedimentary units. Our biostratigraphically constrained ages are in close agreement with the current Devonian time scale. Combined with previously published data, the age determinations show that igneous activity occurred in four pulses: Middle Devonian (390385 Ma), early Late Devonian (375370 Ma), latest Devonian to early Tournaisian (365354 Ma), and late Tournaisian to early Visean (ca. 339 Ma). Middle Devonian (385389 Ma) volcanic rocks are confined to the Guysborough Group. The Fisset Brook Formation (basalt and minor rhyolite) in the type area and elsewhere in Cape Breton Island and northern mainland Nova Scotia is Late Devonian (ca. 373 Ma), whereas the biostratigraphically distinct succession at Lowland Cove is younger (365 Ma). These Late Devonian rocks are synchronous with plutonism in the Cape Breton Highlands and the Meguma terrane. In the Cobequid Highlands, rhyolite of the Fountain Lake Group was synchronous with Horton Group deposition and with widespread granite plutons (362358 Ma) emplaced during shear on the Cobequid fault zone. The overlying Diamond Brook Formation basalts are slightly younger (355 Ma). Late Tournaisian early Visean mafic intrusions and minor basalt occur along the Cobequid Chedabucto fault zone and in a belt from southern New Brunswick through Prince Edward Island to southwestern Cape Breton Island.
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West Jr., David P., Heather M. Beal, and Timothy W. Grover. "Silurian deformation and metamorphism of Ordovician arc rocks of the Casco Bay Group, south-central Maine." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40, no. 6 (June 1, 2003): 887–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e03-021.
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The Casco Bay Group in south-central Maine consists of a sequence of Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician interlayered quartzofeldspathic granofels and pelite (Cape Elizabeth Formation) overlain by Early to Late Ordovician back-arc volcanic (Spring Point Formation) and volcanogenic sedimentary rocks (Diamond Island and Scarboro formations). These rocks were tightly folded and subjected to low-pressure amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the Late Silurian. This phase of deformation and metamorphism was followed by the development of a variety of structures consistent with a period of dextral transpression in Middle Devonian Early Carboniferous time. Previously dated plutons within the sequence range in age from 422389 Ma and record a period of prolonged intrusive activity in the region. Similarities in age, volcanic rock geochemistry, and lithologic characteristics argue strongly for a correlation between rocks of the Casco Bay Group and those in the Miramichi belt of eastern Maine and northern New Brunswick. The Cape Elizabeth Formation correlates with Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician sediments of the Miramichi Group (Gander Zone) and the Spring Point through Scarboro formations correlate with Early to Late Ordovician back-arc basin volcanics and volcanogenic sediments of the Bathurst Supergroup. The folding and low-pressure metamorphism of the Casco Bay Group is attributed to Late Silurian to Early Devonian terrane convergence and possible lithospheric delamination that would have resulted in a prolonged period of intrusive activity and elevated temperatures at low pressures. Continued convergence and likely plate reconfigurations in the Middle Devonian to Carboniferous led to widespread dextral transpression in the region.
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Patey, Karen S., and Derek H. C. Wilton. "The Deer Cove deposit, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, a Paleozoic mesothermal lode-gold occurrence in the northern Appalachians." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30, no. 7 (July 1, 1993): 1532–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-131.
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The Siluro-Devonian Deer Cove deposit, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, is hosted by volcanic cover rocks of the Point Rousse Complex ophiolite. Mineralization consists of quartz vein lodes with gold, pyrite, lesser chalcopyrite, and minor arsenopyrite. Gold occurs as relatively pure gold intergrown with pyrite, and as solitary grains within the quartz gangue. Host rocks include basalt and gabbro at greenschist-facies metamorphic grade. The volcanic rocks have a general calcalkaline affinity, with (anhydrous) SiO2, TiO2, MgO, Al2O3, and Zr contents of 34–62%, 0.36–0.9%, 2.8–9%, 13.4–18.5%, and 28–48 ppm, respectively; Mg # ranges from 37 to 61. The host basaltic rocks were the products of island-arc or back-arc volcanism. Well-developed alteration haloes surround the quartz veins; the alteration grades from quartz–chlorite–carbonate in the veins, through sericitic wall rock, into propylitic (chlorite–epidote–carbonate–leucoxene) host rock. Trace-element geochemistry indicates that the ore fluids had large-ion lithophile element relationships similar to average crustal values. δ13C and δ18O values of carbonate separates range from −7 to −8‰ and 10 to 12‰, respectively. On the basis of geochemical, alteration, and isotopic data, the Deer Cove deposit should be classified as a typical mesothermal lode-gold occurrence. The veins apparently formed from mesothermal fluids with average crustal compositions that flowed along brittle fracture systems within the cover sequence during Siluro-Devonian Acadian deformation. As such the veins were unrelated to either sea-floor processes or Taconic ophiolite obduction. The vein systems apparently formed during transpressive tectonism which followed ocean closure and ophiolite obduction.
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KEPPIE, J. D., J. DOSTAL, J. B. MURPHY, and B. L. COUSENS. "Palaeozoic within-plate volcanic rocks in Nova Scotia (Canada) reinterpreted: isotopic constraints on magmatic source and palaeocontinental reconstructions." Geological Magazine 134, no. 4 (July 1997): 425–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001675689700719x.
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Palaeozoic volcanism in the Avalon Terrane of northern Nova Scotia occurred during three time intervals: Cambrian–early Ordovician, late Ordovician–early Silurian and middle–late Devonian. In the Meguma Terrane of southern Nova Scotia, Palaeozoic volcanism is limited to the middle Ordovician. Geochemical data show that most of these volcanic rocks are bimodal, within-plate suites. Initial εNd signatures range from +5.4 to −1.9 in the rhyolites and +6.8 to +2.7 in the basalts, a difference attributable to the absence or presence, respectively, of a significant crustal component. The data and regional tectonic settings of the Avalon and Meguma terranes suggest that the volcanism was generated in three different within-plate settings: (1) Cambrian–early Ordovician volcanism related to thermal decay of late Proterozoic arc magmatism during transtensional deformation; (2) middle Ordovician–early Silurian volcanism during sinistral telescoping between Laurentia and Gondwana where extensional bends in the Appalachians produced rifting; and (3) Devonian volcanism resulting from lithospheric delamination during dextral transpression and telescoping. In each setting, active faults served as conduits for the magmas. Nd isotopic data indicate that the source of the Palaeozoic felsic volcanic rocks is isotopically indistinguishable beneath southern and northern Nova Scotia and did not substantially change with time. This crustal source appears to have separated from the mantle during the Proterozoic, a conclusion consistent with the hypothesis that the Palaeozoic rocks in Nova Scotia were deposited upon a late Proterozoic oceanic–cratonic volcanic arc terrane. The Nd data, when combined with published faunal, palaeomagnetic and U–Pb isotopic data, suggest that the Avalon Terrane was peripheral to Gondwana off northwestern South America during Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic times.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Devonian volcanic rocks"
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Schneider, Jean-Luc. "Enregistrement de la dynamique varisque dans les bassins volcano-sédimentaires dévono-dinantiens : exemple des Vosges du Sud (zone moldanubienne)." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990STR1A001.
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La nature des roches volcaniques contemporaines de la sedimentation permet de definir des "ambiances volcaniques". Celles-ci conduisent a l'etablissement d'une volcano-stratigraphie. On reconnait ainsi dans les vosges du sud ou l'etude est focalisee, trois grands ensembles de series : les series inferieures associees a un volcanisme bimodal de type basalte-rhyolite, les series moyennes associees a une activite andesitique et les series superieures dont le volcanisme evolue depuis des trachy-andesites jusqu'a des rhyodacites. L'histoire geologique du bassin des vosges du sud presente de nombreuses analogies avec les autres bassins de la zone moldanubienne (nord du massif central francais, sud de la foret noir). Tous ces bassins se developpent sur une croute continentale et pourraient etre controles par des mouvements transcurrants de la collision varisque.
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Mboungou-Kongo, Jean-Baptiste. "Les formations metamorphiques devono-dinantiennes et les roches plutoniques de la region sud-ouest de clermont-ferrand (massif central francais) : etudes petrographique, geochimique et structurale." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987CLF21027.
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Le socle hercynien au sud-ouest de clermont-ferrand comporte une serie volcano-sedimentaire. Des corps plutoniques y sont intrusifs et la metamorphisent. Diorites et gabbros resultent d'une lignee de differenciation calco-alcaline, avec des facies de cumulats. Les etudes geochimiques soulignent le contraste entre le cortege gabbro-dioritique essentiellement mantellique, et les granites crustaux. L'analyse structurale de la serie volcano-sedimentaire montre deux phases de deformation
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Tasáryová, Zuzana. "Vulkanismus siluru a devonu pražské pánve." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-352022.
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The principal goal of the thesis is to constrain nature of magmatic and alteration processes, character of mantle source(s), geotectonic setting and palaeogeographic implications of the Silurian and Devonian volcanism in Prague Basin (Teplá-Barrandian Unit, Bohemian Massif). The thesis is based on extensive geochemical study covering major- and trace-element geochemistry, neodymium isotope geochemistry and mineral chemistry supported by petrographic and field observations. The most important conclusions of the thesis are as follows: 1. The Silurian volcanic rocks of the Prague Basin represent within-plate, transitional alkali to tholeiitic basalts, which erupted in continental rift setting through thick Cadomian crust. The basalts originated by low degrees of partial melting of garnet peridotite mantle source. Older Wenlock basalts are similar to alkaline ocean island basalts (OIB) derived from subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM), enriched most probably by frozen pods of Ordovician magmas. Younger Ludlow basalts resemble tholeiitic enriched mid-oceanic ridge basalts (EMORB) derived from subduction-modified SCLM depleted by Late Cambrian melting. The Wenlock-Ludlow melting is characterized by contemporaneous mixing of melts derived from both enriched and depleted SCLM mantle domains. 2....
Reports on the topic "Devonian volcanic rocks"
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Doyon, M., C. Dalpe, and G. Valiquette. Silurian and Devonian Volcanic Rocks of the Gaspe Peninsula. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/130886.
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van Wagoner, N. A., and V. K. Fay. Stratigraphy and volcanology of a portion of the Lower Devonian volcanic rocks of southwestern New Brunswick. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/122423.
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