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Pavel Hanžl, Vojtěch Janoušek, Kristýna Hrdličková, David Buriánek, Ochir Gerel, Battushig Altanbaatar, John M. Hora, Petr Čoupek

From magmatic arc to a post-accretionary setting: Late Palaeozoic granitoid plutons in the northwestern Trans-Altai Zone, Mongolia

Journal of Geosciences, volume 68 (2023), issue 1, 25 - 66

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.366



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