Post-Paleozoic evolution of the northern Ardenne Massif constrained by apatite fission-track thermochronology and geological data

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 189, Number 4-6, 2018


Article Number		16
Number of page(s)		16
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2018015
Published online		21 November 2018

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