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Igor Soejono, David Buriánek, Martin Svojtka, Vladimír Žáček, Pavel Čáp, Vojtěch Janoušek

Mid-Ordovician and Late Devonian magmatism in the Togtokhinshil Complex: new insight into the formation and accretionary evolution of the Lake Zone (western Mongolia)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 61 (2016), issue 1, 5 - 23

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.208

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