Nature of bank erosion along the Brahmaputra river channel, Assam, India

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 634-640

  Kotoky, P ^a   Bezbaruah, D ^a   Baruah, J ^a   Sarma, J N ^b  

^a REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

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