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Original Paper

Veronika Štědrá, Radmila Nahodilová

High-pressure metabasic rocks from the Kutná Hora Complex: geological position and petrology of exotic lithologies along the segmented Moldanubian margin, Bohemian Massif

Journal of Geosciences, volume 54 (2009), issue 2, 135 - 157

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.047



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