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Original Paper

Gordon Medaris, Lukáš Ackerman, Emil Jelínek, Virginia Toy, Wolfgang Siebel, Basil Tikoff

The Sklené garnet peridotite: petrology, geochemistry, and structure of a mantle-derived boudin in Moldanubian granulite

Journal of Geosciences, volume 54 (2009), issue 4, 301 - 323

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.052


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