Geomorphological Processes on Terrestrial Planetary Surfaces
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0084-6597,1545-4495
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ea.08.050180.001311