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  1. Departamento de Ciências da Terra, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3030-790, Portugal

    Maria Helena Henriques

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  1. Montanuniversität Leoben, Leoben, Austria

    Günter Tiess

  2. Kolkata, India

    Tapan Majumder

  3. The university of Dundee Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral, Dundee, United Kingdom

    Peter Cameron

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Henriques, M.H. (2014). Geosites, Management of. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_8-1

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