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Fractal analysis of calcsilicate bands from Mérida (Spain) contact-metamorphic aureole: implications for fluid flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

J. C. Fernández-Caliani
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Geología, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
E. Galán
Affiliation:
Dpto. de Cristalograffa y Mineralogía, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996

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