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Research Article

Late Paleozoic multi-stage subduction accretion of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: insights from the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian granites in the southern West Junggar, NW China

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Pages 2051-2073 | Received 14 Jun 2021, Accepted 14 Aug 2021, Published online: 06 Sep 2021

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