Soils in forensic science: Underground meets underworld

Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 501-513

  Barclay, A David ^a   Dawson, Lorna A ^c   Donnelly, Laurance J ^b   Miller, David R ^c   Ritz, Karl ^c  

^a Deanway Technology Centre Halcrow Group Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Halcrow Group Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84919849384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9204-6_32     Document Type: Chapter

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