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Original Paper

Jaromír Ulrych, Jiří Adamovič, Lukáš Krmíček, Lukáš Ackerman, Kadosha Balogh

Revision of Scheumann’s classification of melilitic lamprophyres and related melilitic rocks in light of new analytical data

Journal of Geosciences, volume 59 (2014), issue 1, 3 - 22

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.158


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