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Original Paper

Peter Chudík, Pavel Uher, Milan Kohút, Peter Bačík

Accessory columbite to tantalite, tapiolite and zircon: products of extreme fractionation in highly peraluminous pegmatitic granite from the Považský Inovec Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

Journal of Geosciences, volume 53 (2008), issue 3-4, 323 - 334

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.031

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