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Original Paper

Bedřich Mlčoch, Jiří Konopásek

Pre-Late Carboniferous geology along the contact of the Saxothuringian and Teplá-Barrandian zones in the area covered by younger sediments and volcanics (western Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 55 (2010), issue 2, 81 - 94

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.068

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