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| Title | A Guide to the Determination of Rocks: Being an Introduction to Lithology |
| Author | Édouard Jannettaz |
| Editor | George Washington Plympton |
| Translated by | George Washington Plympton |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | D. Van Nostrand, 1877 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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