Earthquakes and archeology: Neocatastrophism or science?

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Volumn 87, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 317-318

  Kovach, Robert L ^a   Nur, Amus ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; EARTHQUAKE;

EID: 34447651384     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006EO320003     Document Type: Article

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