Climate and palaeoenvironment evolution in north tropical Africa from the end of the Tertiary to the Upper Quaternary

African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 227-278

  Maley, Jean ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

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