Layering and ore mineralization in intrusive complexes as consequences of igneous system development under the influence of seismogravitational processes

Petrology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 571-584

  Likhachev, A P ^a  

^a SIBERIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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