Stratigraphy, soils, and age relationships of mima-like mounds, laramie basin, wyoming

Physical Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-96

  Reider, Richard G ^a   Huss, Joseph M ^a   Miller, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Holocene; Mima like mounds; Soil stratigraphy; Topography

Indexed keywords

AGE; DOME; MICRORELIEF; SOIL; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033364486     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.1999.10642670     Document Type: Article

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