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Striated Pavement of the Upper Pre-Cambrian Glaciation in Brazil

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OCCURRENCE of an extensive outcrop of glacial abraded Pre-Cambrian quartzites directly overlain by Late Pre-Cambrian diamictite is evidence for a Late Pre-Cambrian glacial age in South America.

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    CARLOS A. L. ISOTTA, A. C. ROCHA-CAMPOS & R. YOSHIDA

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ISOTTA, C., ROCHA-CAMPOS, A. & YOSHIDA, R. Striated Pavement of the Upper Pre-Cambrian Glaciation in Brazil. Nature 222, 466–468 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222466a0

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