Loess material and loess deposits: Formation, distribution and consequences

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 38, Issue C, 1983, Pages 51-68

  Smalley, Ian J ^a   Smalley, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 0004562830     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(08)70788-X     Document Type: Article

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