Stream Piracy Revisited: A Groundwater-Sapping Solution

GSA Today

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 4-10

  Pederson, Darryll T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0041870305     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2001)011<0004:SPRAGS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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