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Late Cenozoic tectonic deformation in the Tianshan Mountain and its foreland basins

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Zhang, P. Late Cenozoic tectonic deformation in the Tianshan Mountain and its foreland basins. Chin.Sci.Bull. 49, 311–313 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900310

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