Journal of

GEOsciences

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Original Paper

Rainer Thomas, Paul Davidson

The missing link between granites and granitic pegmatites

Journal of Geosciences, volume 58 (2013), issue 2, 183 - 200

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.135

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