Post-Eocene rotations in the Western Alpine realm: a review from sixty eight years of paleomagnetic investigations

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 196, 2025


Article Number		4
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DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2025002
Published online		01 April 2025

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