Sailing stones on racetrack playa

Journal of Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Bacon, D ^a   Cahill, T ^a,b   Tombrello, T A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE; PLAYA; SLIDING STONE; WIND;

USA, CALIFORNIA, DEATH VALLEY;

EID: 0029730527     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/629806     Document Type: Article

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