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Geology of the Congo

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I HAVE received from one of the Baptist missionaries in the front of the Congo mission a basket of specimens of rocks and a letter giving some particulars of the geological structure of the localities. The letter may be interesting as the first news of this kind from the centre of Africa, on its western side, and I therefore place it at your service.

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PATTISON, S. Geology of the Congo. Nature 28, 243–244 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028243c0

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