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Morphology, composition, age and origin of carbonate spherulites from caves of Western Urals

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Original Russian Text © I.I. Chaykovskiy, O.I. Kadebskaya, K. Žák, 2014, published in Geokhimiya, 2014, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 361–372.

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Chaykovskiy, I.I., Kadebskaya, O.I. & Žák, K. Morphology, composition, age and origin of carbonate spherulites from caves of Western Urals. Geochem. Int. 52, 336–346 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702914020049

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