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Original Paper

Bernhard Schulz

Early Carboniferous P-T path from the Upper Gneiss Unit of Haut-Allier (French Massif Central) - reconstructed by geothermobarometry and EMP-Th-U-Pb monazite dating

Journal of Geosciences, volume 59 (2014), issue 4, 327 - 349

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/Jgeosci.178

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