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Research Article

Provenance analysis and thermochronology of the Chivillas Formation, Mexico: a record of basin formation and inversion in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental during the Early Cretaceous–Palaeogene

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Pages 2370-2401 | Received 17 Feb 2022, Accepted 21 Oct 2022, Published online: 11 Nov 2022

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