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Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the ebro delta western. The view is from the southsouthwest, showing a yellowish dunite channel in foreground, crosscutting the mantle section, immediately overlain by the gabbro basalt ranges in the northnortheast. We felt so happy because we can finish this dictionary without any big trouble although we lost one of our beloved editors. Neotectonic movement in the pearl river delta prd region of.
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