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Original Paper

Simon Couzinié, Jean-François Moyen, Arnaud Villaros, Jean-Louis Paquette, Jane H. Scarrow, Christian Marignac

Temporal relationships between Mg-K mafic magmatism and catastrophic melting of the Variscan crust in the southern part of Velay Complex (Massif Central, France)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 59 (2014), issue 1, 69 - 86

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.155

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