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Original paper

Danilo Walther, Christoph Breitkreuz, Vladislav Rapprich, Yulia V. Kochergina, Marta Chlupáčová, Manuel Lapp, Klaus Stanek, Tomáš Magna

The Late Carboniferous Schönfeld-Altenberg Depression on the NW margin of the Bohemian Massif (Germany/Czech Republic): volcanosedimentary and magmatic evolution

Journal of Geosciences, volume 61 (2016), issue 4, 371 - 393

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.219

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