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Original Paper

Karel Schulmann, Emilien Oliot, Monika Košuličová, Raymond Montigny, Pavla Śtípská

Variscan thermal overprints exemplified by U-Th-Pb monazite and K-Ar muscovite and biotite dating at the eastern margin of the Bohemian Massif (East Sudetes, Czech Republic)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 59 (2014), issue 4, 389 - 413

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.180

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