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Vladimír Žáček, David Buriánek, Zoltán Pécskay, Radek Škoda

Anorogenic Early Permian dykes in the western Mongolian Altai - petrography, geochemistry and K-Ar geochronology

Journal of Geosciences, volume 64 (2019), issue 1, 37 - 58

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.280

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