Cold-Climate Aeolian Environments

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages 375-394

  Wolfe, S A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Cold climates; Loess; Palaeoenvironments; Periglacial; Sand dunes; Sand sheets; Sand wedges; Ventifacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903421482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00312-2     Document Type: Chapter

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