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Geochemistry and zircon U-Pb geochronology of Miocene plutons in the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc, east Tafresh, Central Iran

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Pages 1815-1827 | Received 28 Sep 2018, Accepted 25 Mar 2019, Published online: 13 Apr 2019

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