Topographic and bathymetric changes at thirty-three long-term study sites

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 110, Issue , 1999, Pages 161-183

  Hazel, Joseph E ^a   Kaplinski, Matt ^a   Parnell, Roderic ^a   Manone, Mark ^a   Dale, Alan ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0004819696     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM110p0161     Document Type: Chapter

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