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Linking the NE Anatolian and Lesser Caucasus ophiolites: evidence for large-scale obduction of oceanic crust and implications for the formation of the Lesser Caucasus-Pontides Arc

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Pages 311-330 | Received 03 Jun 2013, Accepted 02 Aug 2013, Published online: 17 Mar 2014

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