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Original paper

Paul Rustemeyer

Tourmaline Crystals with Corrosion Phenomena from the Skardu Area, North Pakistan. Part 1: Diversity of the outer Morphology

Journal of Geosciences, volume 71 (2026), issue 1, 57 - 77

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.0056.25

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