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Original Paper

Bernard Bonin

Death of super-continents and birth of oceans heralded by discrete A-type granite igneous events: the case of the Variscan-Alpine Europe

Journal of Geosciences, volume 53 (2008), issue 3-4, 237 - 252

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.036

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