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Original Paper

Soheyla Beygi, Alireza Nadimi, Homayon Safaei

Tectonic history of seismogenic fault structures in Central Iran

Journal of Geosciences, volume 61 (2016), issue 2, 127 - 144

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.212

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