River landforms and sediments: Evidence of climatic change

Geomorphology of Desert Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 695-721

  Reid, Ian ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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