Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original paper

Marcos García-Arias

The never-ending pursuit of a definitive chemical classification system for granites

Journal of Geosciences, volume 65 (2020), issue 4, 221 - 227

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.313

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