Late Miocene River Euphrates
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1 Department of Geography, Harran University, 63300 Şanlıurfa, Turkey 2 Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA 3 Department of Geology, Çukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey 4 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Eldon House, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE3 3PW, UK 5 School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK 6 Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK 7 School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK 8 Birmingham Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK 9 School of Earth Sciences and Geography, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
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