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Geochemistry and origin of metamorphosed mafic rocks from the Lower Paleozoic Moretown and Cram Hill Formations of North-Central Vermont: Delamination magmatism in the western New England appalachians

Raymond Coish, Jonathan Kim, Evan Twelker, Scott Zolkos and Gregory Walsh
American Journal of Science November 2015, 315 (9) 809-845; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/09.2015.02

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Geochemistry and origin of metamorphosed mafic rocks from the Lower Paleozoic Moretown and Cram Hill Formations of North-Central Vermont: Delamination magmatism in the western New England appalachians
Raymond Coish, Jonathan Kim, Evan Twelker, Scott Zolkos, Gregory Walsh
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