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Pavel Hanžl, Lucie Uhrová, Kristýna Hrdličková, Karel Schulmann, David Buriánek, Orgil Gansukh, Jitka Míková

Late Ordovician magmatic pulse in the Tugrug Group, the Gobi Altai Zone, SW Mongolia

Journal of Geosciences, volume 69 (2024), issue 1, 31 - 19

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.385

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