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Hercynian orogeny in the Pyrenees was not a rifting event

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MATTE, P., MATTAUER, M. Hercynian orogeny in the Pyrenees was not a rifting event. Nature 325, 739–740 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/325739b0

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