Early Mesozoic marginal seas in Black Sea-Caucasus region: Paleotectonic reconstructions

Geotectonics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 349-363

  Kazmin, V G ^a   Tikhonova, N F ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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