Origin of the Cerro El Dragón coastal dune, Iquique, Atacama desert, Chile

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-182

  Morgan, Ruth ^a   Bull, Peter ^a   Paskoff, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 32144436450     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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