Paleotemperature investigation of the Variscan southern external domain: the case of the Montagne Noire (France)

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 192, 2021


Article Number		3
Number of page(s)		24
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2020043
Published online		01 March 2021

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