Ancient floods, modern hazards: the Ping River, paleofloods and the 'lost city' of Wiang Kum Kam

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2247-2263

  Ng, Serene ^a   Wood, Spencer H ^b   Ziegler, Alan D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental history; Floods; Northern Thailand; Wiang Kum Kam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920079585     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1426-7     Document Type: Article

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