Selected Publications
Lipp, A. and
Vermeesch, P. 2023. The Wasserstein distance as a
dissimilarity metric for comparing detrital age spectra and other geological
distributions. Geochronology 5.1, pp.263-270.
Vermeesch, P., Tian, Y.,
Schwanethal, J. and Buret, Y., 2023. Technical note: In situ
U–Th–He dating by
4He/
3He laser microprobe
analysis. Geochronology, 5, pp.323-332
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Vermeesch, P., Lipp, A.G., Hatzenbühler, D., Caracciolo, L. and Chew. D., 2023.
Multidimensional scaling of varietal data in sedimentary provenance analysis.
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 128, doi:10.1029/2022JF006992.
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Andreuttiova, L., Hollingsworth, J.,
Vermeesch, P., Mitchell, T.M.,
and Bergman, E. 2022. Revisiting the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake
using optical image correlation; new constraints on near-field 3D ground
displacement. Geophysical Research Letters 49.16, e2022GL098666.
Garzanti, E., Bayon, G., Dinis, P.,
Vermeesch, P., Pastore, G., Resentini, A.,
Barbarano, M., Ncube, L., and Van Niekerk, H.J. 2022. The segmented
Zambezi sedimentary system from source to sink: 2. Geochemistry, clay
minerals, and detrital geochronology. The Journal of Geology 130.3,
pp.171-208.
Garzanti, E., Bayon, G.,
Vermeesch, P., Barbarano, M., Pastore, G.,
Resentini, A., Dennielou, B., and Jouet, G. 2022. The Zambezi deep-sea
fan: mineralogical, REE, Zr/Hf, Nd-isotope, and zircon-age variability in
feldspar-rich passive-margin turbidites. Journal of Sedimentary Research
92.11, pp.1022-1043.
Garzanti, E., Pastore, G., Stone, A., Vainer, S.,
Vermeesch, P., and Resentini,
A. 2022. Provenance of Kalahari Sand: Paleoweathering and recycling in a
linked fluvial-aeolian system. Earth-Science Reviews 224, p.103867.
Vermeesch, P., 2022. An algorithm for U–Pb geochronology by secondary ion mass spectrometry,
Geochronology, 4, 561-576, doi:10.5194/gchron-4-561-2022.
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Baird, T.R., Bristow, C.S., Luo, W., Du, E., Bryant, R.G.,
Mitchell, T.M., and
Vermeesch, P. 2021. Blowout Morphometrics
and Mass Balances Frontiers in Earth Science 9, p.669440.
Connelly, J., Bollard, J., Costa, M.,
Vermeesch, P., and Bizzarro,
M. 2021. Improved methods for high-precision Pb-Pb dating of
extra-terrestrial materials. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
36.12, pp.2579-2587.
Garzanti, E., Pastore, G., Resentini, A., Vezzoli, G.,
Vermeesch, P., Ncube,
L., Niekerk, H.J.V., Jouet, G., and Dall'Asta, M. 2021. The segmented
Zambezi sedimentary system from source to sink: 1. Sand petrology and
heavy minerals. The Journal of Geology 129.4, pp.343-369.
Li, Y. and
Vermeesch, P. 2021. Inverse isochron regression for
Re-Os, K-Ca and other chronometers. Geochronology 3.2, pp.415-420.
Marschalek, J., Zurli, L., Talarico, F., Van de Flierdt, T.,
Vermeesch, P.,
Carter, A., Beny, F., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Sangiorgi, F., Hemming, S., et
al. 2021. A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level
amplitude. Nature 600.7889, pp.450-455.
Pastore, G., Baird, T.,
Vermeesch, P., Bristow, C., Resentini, A., and
Garzanti, E. 2021. Provenance and recycling of Sahara Desert sand.
Earth-Science Reviews 216, p.103606.
Schaen, A., Jicha, B., Hodges, K.,
Vermeesch, P., Stelten, M.,
Mercer, C., Phillips, D., Rivera, T., Jourdan, F., Matchan, E.,
et al. 2021. Interpreting and
reporting
40Ar/
39Ar geochronologic
data. GSA Bulletin. 133.3-4, pp.461-487.
Vermeesch, P., and Pease, V., 2021. A genetic
classification of the tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magma series,
Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 19, 1-6, doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2125.
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Vermeesch, P., 2021. On the treatment of discordant detrital zircon U-Pb data, Geochronology,
3, 247-257, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-247-2021, 2021.
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Vermeesch, P., 2021. Maximum deposition age estimation revisited,
Geoscience Frontiers, 12, 843-850, doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2020.08.008.
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Bird, A., Millar, I., Rodenburg, T., Stevens, T., Rittner, M.,
Vermeesch, P.,
and Lu, H. 2020. A constant Chinese Loess Plateau dust source since the
late Miocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 227, p.106042.
Garzanti, E., Liang, W., Andò, S., Clift, P.D., Resentini, A., Vermeesch,
P., and Vezzoli, G. 2020. “Provenance of Thal Desert sand: Focused erosion
in the western Himalayan syntaxis and foreland-basin deposition driven by
latest Quaternary climate change. Earth-science reviews 207, p.103220.
Resentini, A., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Malusà,
M.G., Pastore, G.,
Vermeesch, P., Chanvry, E., and Dall'Asta, M.
2020. Zircon as a provenance tracer: Coupling Raman spectroscopy
and UPb geochronology in source-to-sink studies. Chemical Geology 555,
p.119828.
Vermeesch, P., 2020. Unifying the U–Pb and Th–Pb methods:
joint isochron regression and common Pb correction,
Geochronology, 2, 119-131, doi: 10.5194/gchron-2-119-2020.
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Baird, T., Bristow, C.S., and
Vermeesch, P. 2019. Measuring sand
dune migration rates with COSI-Corr and Landsat: Opportunities and
challenges. Remote Sensing 11.20, p.2423.
Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Vezzoli, G., Andò, S., Botti, E., Limonta, M.,
Dinis, P., Hahn, A., Baudet, D., De Grave, J., et al. 2019. Congo River sand
and the equatorial quartz factory. Earth-Science Reviews 197, p.102918.
Vermeesch, P., 2019. Exploratory analysis of provenance data
using R and the provenance package, Minerals, 9, 5; doi:10.3390/min9030005.
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Vermeesch, P., 2019. Statistics for fission-track thermochronology,
in:
Fission-track thermochronology and its application to geology,
M. Malusà and P. Fitzgerald Eds., Springer, Berlin, 109-122.
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Fenn, K., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Limonta, M., Rittner, M.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Zhang, H.,
et al. 2018. Insights into the provenance of the Chinese Loess
Plateau from joint zircon U-Pb and garnet geochemical analysis
of last glacial loess. Quaternary Research 89.3, pp.645-659.
Garzanti, E., Dinis, P.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Hahn, A., Huvi, J., Limonta,
M., Padoan, M., Resentini, A., Rittner, M., et al. 2018. Dynamic uplift,
recycling, and climate control on the petrology of passive-margin sand
(Angola). Sedimentary Geology 375, pp.86-104.
Garzanti, E., Dinis, P.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Hahn, A., Huvi, J., Limonta,
M., Padoan, M., Resentini, A., Rittner, M., et al. 2018.
Sedimentary processes controlling ultralong cells of littoral
transport: Placer formation and termination of the Orange sand highway in
southern Angola. Sedimentology 65.2, pp.431-460.
Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., and Simmons, M. 2018. The zircon
story of the Nile: Time-structure maps of source rocks and discontinuous
propagation of detrital signals. Basin Research 30.6, pp.1098-1117.
Li, Q., Gleadow, A., Seiler, C., Kohn, B.,
Vermeesch, P.,
Carter, A., and Hurford, A. 2018. Observations on
three-dimensional measurement of confined fission track lengths
in apatite using digital imagery. American Mineralogist 103.3,
pp. 430-440.
Smye, A., Marsh, J.,
Vermeesch, P., Garber, J., and Stockli, D. 2018.
Applications and limitations of U-Pb thermochronology to middle and lower
crustal thermal histories. Chemical Geology 494, pp.1-18.
Vermeesch, P., 2018, IsoplotR: a free and open toolbox for geochronology.
Geoscience Frontiers, 9, 1479-1493, doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.001.
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Vermeesch, P., 2018, Statistical models for point-counting data.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 501, 1-7, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.019
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Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Schimmelpfennig, I., Benedetti, L. and ASTER Team,
2018, Determining erosion rates in Allchar (Macedonia)
to revive the lorandite neutrino experiment. Proceedings of the
Royal Society A, v.474, doi:1 0.1098/rspa.2017.0470.
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Vermeesch, P., 2018, Dissimilarity measures in detrital geochronology,
Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 310-321, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.027.
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Dinis, P., Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., and Huvi,
J. 2017. Climatic zonation and weathering control on sediment
composition (Angola). Chemical Geology, 467, pp. 110-121.
Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Al-Ramadan, K.A., Andò, S.,
Limonta, M., Rittner, M., and Vezzoli, G. 2017. Tracing
Transcontinental Sand Transport: from Anatolia-Zagros to the
Rub'Al Khali Sand Sea. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87.11,
pp.1196-1213.
He, T., Zhou, Y.,
Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M.,
Carter, A., von Strandmann, P.A.P., and Shields,
G.A. 2017. Measuring the Great Unconformity on the North China
Craton using new detrital zircon age data. In: Earth System
Evolution and Early Life: A Celebration of the Work of Martin
Brasier, A. T. Brasier, D. McIlroy, N. McLoughlin, Geological
Society of London Special Publication.
Tian, Y.,
Vermeesch, P., Danişík, M., Condon,
D.J., Chen, W., Kohn, B., Schwanethal, J., and Rittner,
M. 2017. LGC-1: A zircon reference material for in-situ
(U-Th)/He dating. Chemical Geology, 454, pp.80-92.
Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Petrou, E., Omma, J., Mattinson, C. and
Garzanti, E., 2017, High throughput petrochronology and sedimentary
provenance analysis by automated phase mapping and LAICPMS,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi: 10.1002/2017GC007109.
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Vermeesch, P., 2017, Statistics for LA-ICP-MS based fission track
dating. Chemical Geology, 456, 19-27
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Rittner, M.,
Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Bird, A., Stevens, T., Garzanti,
E., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Dutt, R., Xu, Z., et al. 2016. The provenance
of Taklamakan desert sand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 437,
pp.127-137
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Horstwood, M.S., Košler, J., Gehrels, G., Jackson, S.E.,
McLean, N.M., Paton, C., Pearson, N.J., Sircombe, K., Sylvester,
P.,
Vermeesch, P., et al. 2016. Community-derived standards for
LA-ICP-MS U-(Th-)Pb geochronology - Uncertainty propagation, age
interpretation and data reporting. Geostandards and Geoanalytical
Research, 40.3, pp.311-332.
Garzanti, E., Al-Juboury, A.I., Zoleikhaei, Y.,
Vermeesch, P.,
Jotheri, J., Akkoca, D.B., Obaid, A.K., Allen, M.B.,
Andó, S., Limonta, M., et al. 2016. “The
Euphrates-Tigris-Karun river system: Provenance, recycling and
dispersal of quartz-poor foreland-basin sediments in arid
climate. Earth-Science Reviews, 162, pp.107-128.
Vermeesch, P., Resentini, A. and Garzanti, E., 2016, An
R package for statistical provenance
analysis, Sedimentary Geology, 336, 14-25
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Nie, J., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Stockli, D., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., Bird, A., Andò, S.,
Vermeesch, P., Saylor, J., et al. 2015. Loess plateau storage of northeastern Tibetan
plateau-derived Yellow River sediment. Nature Communications, 6, doi: 0.1038/ncomms9511.
Garzanti, E., Resentini, A., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Pereira, A., and
Vermeesch, P. 2015.
Physical controls on sand composition and relative durability of detrital minerals during ultra-long distance littoral and
aeolian transport (Namibia and southern Angola). Sedimentology, 62.4, pp.971-996.
Evans, N., McInnes, B., McDonald, B., Danişík, M., Becker, T.,
Vermeesch, P.,
Shelley, M., Marillo-Sialer, E., and Patterson, D. 2015. An in situ technique for
(U-Th-Sm)/He and U-Pb double dating. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 30.7, pp.1636-1645.
Bird, A., Stevens, T., Rittner, M.,
Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Andò, S.,
Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Zeng, L., et al. 2015. Quaternary dust source variation
across the Chinese Loess Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 435, pp.254-264.
Vermeesch, P. 2015, Revised error propagation of
40Ar/
39Ar data, including covariances,
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.008.
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Vermeesch, P. and Garzanti, E., 2015, Making geological sense of 'Big Data' in sedimentary provenance analysis.
Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.05.004, v.409, 20-27
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Vermeesch, P., Balco, G., Blard, P-H, Dunai, T.J., Kober, F., Niedermann, S., Shuster, D.L.,
Strasky, S., Stuart, F.M., Wieler, R. and Zimmermann, L., 2015, Interlaboratory comparison of
21Ne in quartz. Quaternary Geochronology, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.009
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Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Padoan, M., Resentini, A., Vezzoli, G., and Andò, S. 2014.
Provenance of passive-margin sand (Southern Africa). The Journal of Geology, 122.1, pp.17-42.
Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Lustrino, M., Padoan, M., and Vezzoli, G. 2014.
Ultra-long distance littoral transport of Orange sand and provenance of the Skeleton Coast Erg (Namibia).
Marine Geology, 357, pp.25-36.
Vermeesch, P. and Tian, Y., 2014, Thermal history modelling: HeFTy vs. QTQt. Earth-Science Reviews
v.139, 279-290, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.09.010
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Stevens, T., Carter, A., Watson, T.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò,
S., Bird, A., Lu, H., Garzanti, E., Cottam, M., and
Sevastjanova, I. 2013. Genetic linkage between the Yellow River,
the Mu Us desert and the Chinese loess plateau. Quaternary
Science Reviews, 78, pp.355-368.
Garzanti, E.,
Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Valagussa,
M., Allen, K., Kadi, K.A., and Al-Juboury, A.I. 2013. Provenance
and recycling of Arabian desert sand. Earth-Science Reviews,
120, pp. 1-19.
Vermeesch, P., 2013, Multi-sample comparison of detrital age distributions. Chemical Geology v.341, 140-146,
doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.01.010
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Garzanti, E., Andò, S., Vezzoli, G., Lustrino, M., Boni,
M., and
Vermeesch, P. 2012. Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea:
Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the
wind-displaced Orange Delta”. Earth-Science Reviews,
112. 3-4, pp.173-189.
Vermeesch, P. and Leprince, S., 2012. A 45-year time series of dune mobility indicating constant
windiness over the central Sahara. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L14401, doi:10.1029/2012GL052592
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Vermeesch, P., 2012. On the visualisation of detrital age distributions. Chemical Geology,
v.312-313, 190-194, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.04.021
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Vermeesch, P., Sherlock, S.C., Roberts, N.M.W., and Carter, A., 2012.
A simple method for in-situ U-Th-He dating, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 79, 140-147
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Vermeesch, P., 2011. Solitary wave behavior in sand dunes observed from space,
Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L22402, doi:10.1029/2011GL049610
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Vermeesch, P., Fenton, C.R., Kober, F., Wiggs, G.F.S., Bristow, C.S, and Xu, S., 2010.
One million year residence time of Namib dune sand from cosmogenic nuclides, Nature Geoscience, 3, 862-865
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Vermeesch, P., 2010.
HelioPlot, and the treatment of overdispersed (U-Th-Sm)/He data, Chemical Geology, 271 (3-4) 108-111
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Vermeesch, P., 2009.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics (in Geology), Eos, 90 (47), p.443
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Vermeesch, P., Baur, H., Heber, V. S., Kober, F.,
Oberholzer, P., Schaefer, J. M., Schluechter, C., Strasky, S., and
Wieler, R., 2009. Cosmogenic
3He and
21Ne
measured in quartz targets after one year of exposure in the Swiss
Alps, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 3-4, 417-425,
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.007
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Vermeesch, P., 2009, RadialPlotter: a Java application for fission track, luminescence and other radial plots,
Radiation Measurements, 44, 4, 409-410
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Vermeesch, P., Avigad, D. and McWilliams, M., 2009.
500 Myr of thermal history elucidated by multi-method detrital
thermochronology of North Gondwana Cambrian sandstone (Eilat area, Israel),
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 7/8, 1204-1216, doi: 10.1130/B26473.1
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Vermeesch, P. and Drake, N., 2008.
Remotely sensed dune celerity and sand flux measurements of the world's
fastest barchans (Bod@eacute;lé, Chad):
Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035921
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Vermeesch, P., 2008,
Three new ways to calculate average (U-Th)/He ages, Chemical Geology, v.249, p.339-347
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Vermeesch, P., 2007,
Quantitative geomorphology of the White Mountains (California), using detrital apatite fission track thermochronology:
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 112, F03004, doi:10.1029/2006JF000671
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CosmoCalc: an Excel add-in for cosmogenic nuclide calculations:
Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems
, Vol. 8, Q08003, doi: 10.1029/2006GC001530
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Vermeesch, P., Seward, D., Latkoczy, C., Wipf, M., Guenther, D. and Baur, H., 2007,
Alpha-emitting mineral inclusions in apatite, their effect on (U-Th)/He ages, and how to reduce it:
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.71 p.1737.1746
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Vermeesch, P., 2006,
Tectonic discrimination diagrams revisited:
Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, 7, Q06017, doi:10.1029/2005GC001092
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Vermeesch, P., Miller, D. D., Graham, S. A., De Grave, J., and McWilliams, M. O., 2006,
Multi-method detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group near New Idria (California):
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 1, pp. 210-218
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Vermeesch, P., 2006, Tectonic discrimination of basalts with classification trees:
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 70, no. 7, pp. 1839-1848.
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Vermeesch, P., 2005,
Statistical uncertainty associated with histograms in the Earth Sciences,
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, Vol 110, B02211
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Vermeesch, P., 2004,
How many grains are needed for a provenance study?
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.224, n.3-4, pp. 441-451
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Vermeesch, P., Poort, J., Duchkov, A. D., Klerckx, J., and De Batist, M., 2004,
Lake Issyk-Kul (Tien Shan): Unusually low heat-flow in an active intermontane basin:
Russian Geology and Geophysics, v.45, n.5, pp. 616-625
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