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Original Paper

Dušan Plašienka, Igor Broska, Dana Kissová, István Dunkl

Zircon fission-track dating of granites from the Vepor-Gemer Belt (Western Carpathians): constraints for the Early Alpine exhumation history

Journal of Geosciences, volume 52 (2007), issue 1-2, 113 - 123

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.009


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