Boris Choubert: Unrecognized visionary geologist, pioneer of the global tectonics

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 189, Number 2, 2018


Article Number		7
Number of page(s)		15
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2018006
Published online		30 April 2018

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