Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original Paper

Vladislav Rapprich, Vojtěch Erban, Kateřina Fárová, Veronika Kopačková, Hervé Bellon, Walter Hernández

Volcanic history of the Conchagua Peninsula (eastern El Salvador)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 55 (2010), issue 2, 95 - 112

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.069

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