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The Late Jurassic extensional event in the central part of the South China Block – evidence from the Laoshan’ao shear zone and Xiangdong Tungsten deposit (Hunan, SE China)

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Pages 1644-1664 | Received 30 Jun 2017, Accepted 19 Oct 2017, Published online: 14 Nov 2017

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