The high-pressure ultramafic-mafic-carbonate suite of Cima Lunga-Adula, central Alps: excursions to Cima di Gagnone and Alpe Arami

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 337-354

  Pfiffner, Marcel ^a   Trommsdorff, Volkmar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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