Kuwait as an alluvial fan of a paleo-river

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 103, Issue , 1996, Pages 49-59

  El Baz, Farouk ^a   Al Sarawi, M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; DELTA; PALAEORIVER;

KUWAIT;

EID: 0030455444     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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