Morphology and architecture of a late Pleistocene cliff-front dune, Mallorca, western Mediterranean

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 251-254

  Clemmensen, Lars B ^a   Fornós, Joan J ^b   Rodríguez Perea, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIFF FRONT; DUNE FORMATION; PLEISTOCENE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; SPAIN;

EID: 0031389813     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1997.tb00023.x     Document Type: Article

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