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Pavel Hanžl, Karel Schulmann, Vojtěch Janoušek, Ondrej Lexa, Kristýna Hrdličková, Yingde Jiang, David Buriánek, Battushig Altanbaatar, Turbat Ganchuluun, Vojtěch Erban

Making continental crust: origin of Devonian orthogneisses from SE Mongolian Altai

Journal of Geosciences, volume 61 (2016), issue 1, 25 - 50

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.206

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