Pans and dunes in the southwestern Kalahari (Namibia): Geomorphology and evidence for Quaternary paleoclimates

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 111, Issue , 1997, Pages 73-95

  Eitel, Bernhard ^a   Blümel, Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE DEVELOPMENT; PALAEOCLIMATE;

NAMIBIA, KALAHARI;

EID: 0031425471     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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