Rock-mantled slopes

Geomorphology of Desert Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 233-263

  Parsons, Anthony J ^a   Abrahams, Athol D ^b   Howard, Alan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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