Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original Paper

Tomáš Hrstka, Paul Gottlieb, Roman Skála, Karel Breiter, David Motl

Automated mineralogy and petrology - applications of TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyzer (TIMA)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 63 (2018), issue 1, 47 - 63

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.250

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