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Nadeesha S. Madugalla, Amarasooriya Pitawala, Geeth Manthilake

Primary and secondary textures of dolomite in Eppawala carbonatites, Sri Lanka: implications for their petrogenetic history

Journal of Geosciences, volume 62 (2017), issue 3, 187 - 200

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.242

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