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Original Paper

Ivan Gnojek, Jiří Sedlák, Vladislav Rapprich, Zuzana Skácelová, Bedřich Mlčoch, Ottomar Krentz, Raymundo Casar-Garcia

Structure of the Carboniferous Altenberg-Teplice Caldera (Eastern part of the Krušné hory/Erzgebirge Mts.) revealed by combined airborne and ground gamma-ray spectrometry

Journal of Geosciences, volume 63 (2018), issue 1, 3 - 20

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.251

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