Evidence for long-term uplift on the Canary Islands from emergent Mio–Pliocene littoral deposits
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عنوان ژورنال: Global and Planetary Change
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0921-8181
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.040