Early Permian age of granite pebbles from an Eocene or Oligocene conglomerate of the Internal Rif belt (Alboran domain, Morocco): hypothesis on their origin

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 189, Number 3, 2018


Article Number		13
Number of page(s)		10
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2018012
Published online		17 September 2018

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