Are North Slope surface alluvial fans pre-Holocene relicts?

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1605, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Reimnitz, Erk ^a   Wolf, Stephen C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BRAIDED RIVER; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOSURFACE; QUATERNARY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032432723     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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