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Original paper

David Buriánek, Vojtěch Janoušek, Pavel Hanžl, Yingde Jiang, Karel Schulmann, Ondrej Lexa, Battushig Altanbaatar

Petrogenesis of the Late Carboniferous Sagsai Pluton in the SE Mongolian Altai

Journal of Geosciences, volume 61 (2016), issue 1, 67 - 92

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