Continental depositional record of climate and tectonic evolution around the Eocene-Oligocene transition in southeast France: perpectives from the Vistrenque Basin (Camargue)

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 195, 2024


Article Number		8
Number of page(s)		39
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2024005
Published online		23 May 2024

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