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Original Paper

Ali I. Al-Juboury, Mohsin M. Ghazal, Tom McCann

Detrital chromian spinels from Miocene and Holocene sediments of northern Iraq: provenance implications

Journal of Geosciences, volume 54 (2009), issue 3, 289 - 300

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.041

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