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Geological evolution of the tethys belt from the atlantic to the pamirs since the LIAS 1986 2026 1999 2012 1.3k
  1. Geological evolution of the tethys belt from the atlantic to the pamirs since the LIAS (1986)
    Jean Dercourt, Л.П. Зоненшайн et al. Tectonophysics

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