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The territory of Azerbaijan covers a part of the Mediterranean Alpine belt of Eurasia, being characterized by complex geological and tectonic structures and numerous formational types of hard minerals and hydrocarbons within folded systems of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus, Talysh Mts., Kur Depression and South Caspian Basin.
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Alizadeh, A.A., Guliyev, I.S., Kadirov, F.A., Eppelbaum, L.V. (2017). Economic Minerals of Azerbaijan. In: Geosciences of Azerbaijan. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40493-6_2
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