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- ↑ Joyce, Edmund Bernard (1970), An archive of studies on the geology and archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley, archived from the original on 29 April 2024, retrieved 13 November 2018
- ↑ "J. M. Bowler ALLUVIAL TERRACES IN THE MARIBYRNONG VALLEY NEAR KEILOR, VICTORIA, Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 1970 p.15" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
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