Late Cenozoic shortening in the west-central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran, by combined conjugate strike-slip and thin-skinned deformation
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عنوان ژورنال: Geosphere
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1553-040X
DOI: 10.1130/ges00019.1