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Original Paper

Gbambie Isaac Bertrand Mbowou, Claudial Lagmet, Sébastien Nomade, Ismaïla Ngounouno, Bernard Deruelle, Daniel Ohnenstetter

Petrology of the Late Cretaceous peralkaline rhyolites (pantellerite and comendite) from Lake Chad, Central Africa

Journal of Geosciences, volume 57 (2012), issue 2, 127 - 141

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.118

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