Journal of

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Original paper

Jakub Plášil, Anthony R. Kampf, Radek Škoda, Jiří Čejka

Vandermeerscheite, a new uranyl vanadate related to carnotite, from Eifel, Germany

Journal of Geosciences, volume 64 (2019), issue 3, 219 - 227

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.288

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