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Original Paper

Jaroslaw Majka, Yaron Be’eri-Shlevin, David G. Gee, Anna Ladenberger, Stefan Claesson, Patrik Konečný, Iwona Klonowska

Multiple monazite growth in the Åreskutan migmatite: evidence for a polymetamorphic Late Ordovician to Late Silurian evolution in the Seve Nappe Complex of west-central Jämtland, Sweden

Journal of Geosciences, volume 57 (2012), issue 1, 3 - 23

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.112

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