Controls, history, outbursts, and impact of large late-Quaternary proglacial lakes in North America

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2003, Pages 45-61

  Teller, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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EID: 77956785093     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0866(03)01003-0     Document Type: Review

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