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Vladimír Žáček, Vojtěch Janoušek, Andrés Ulloa, Jan Košler, Sofia Huapaya, Petr Mixa, Lenka Vondrovicová, Guillermo A. Alvarado

The Late Miocene Guacimal Pluton in the Cordillera de Tilarán, Costa Rica: its nature, age and petrogenesis

Journal of Geosciences, volume 56 (2011), issue 1, 51 - 79

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