Processes and forms of alluvial fans

Geomorphology of Desert Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 413-467

  Blair, Terence C ^a   McPherson, John G ^b  

^a Blair and Associates LLC   (United States)

^b ExxonMobil Exploration Company   (Australia)

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