Large-scale geomorphology: Classical concepts reconciled and integrated with contemporary ideas via a surface processes model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 3361-3386

  Kooi, Henk ^a   Beaumont, Christopher ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001357926     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb01861     Document Type: Article

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