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Original paper

Lars Scharfenberg, Anette Regelous, Helga De Wall

Radiogenic heat production of Variscan granites from the Western Bohemian Massif, Germany

Journal of Geosciences, volume 64 (2019), issue 4, 251 - 269

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.293

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