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Sébastien Owona, Joseph Mvondo Ondoa, Marion Tichomirowa, Georges Emmanuel Ekodeck

The petrostructural characteristics and ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁶Pb zircon data from the Ngomedzap-Akongo area (Nyong complex, SW-Cameroon)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 65 (2020), issue 3, 201 - 219

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.309

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