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- ↑ Pugh, Griffith Thompson.; Pugh, Griffith Thompson (1905). Pleistocene deposits of South Carolina : with an especial attempt at ascertaining what must have been the environmental conditions under which the Pleistocene Mollusca of the state lived / by Griffith Thompson Pugh. Nashville, Tenn.
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