Lake magadi, kenya, and its precursors

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 28, Issue C, 1980, Pages 195-232

  Eugster, H P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956794952     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(08)70239-5     Document Type: Article

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