Late Quaternary valley and slope deposits and their palaeoenvironmental significance in the Upper Congo Basin, Central Africa

New Studies on Former and Recent Landscape Changes in Africa: Palaeoecology of Africa 32

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 53-90

  Runge, Jürgen ^a   Sangen, Mark ^a   Neumer, Marion ^b   Eisenberg, Joachim ^a   Becker, Eva ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RODECO Consulting GmbH   (Germany)

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