Late Cenozoic landform development in East Africa: The role of near base level planation within the dynamic etchplanation concept

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 106, Issue , 1996, Pages 25-40

  Veldkamp, A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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