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Original Paper

Petra Jakubová, Jana Kotková, Richard Wirth, Radek Škoda, Jakub Haifler

Morphology and Raman spectral parameters of Bohemian microdiamonds: implications to elastic geothermobarometry

Journal of Geosciences, volume 67 (2022), issue 3, 253 - 271

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.356

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