North-Eastern Niger: Sandstone landscape of the Sahara

Geomorphological Landscapes of the World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 171-182

  Busche, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeolian corrasion; central Sahara; etchplanation; fossil landslides; sandstone karst; scarplands; silcrete

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895350677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_18     Document Type: Chapter

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