Salt cave cross-sections and their paleoenvironmental implications

Geomorphology

Volumn 23, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 183-191

  Frumkin, Amos ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEVELOPMENT; SALT CAVE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0032100314     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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