Theater-headed Valleys: the Roles of Overland Flow and Groundwater Sapping
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SAPPING. R. P. Irwin III, A. D. Howard, and R. A. Craddock, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 315, 6 St. at Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20013-7012, [email protected], [email protected], Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 291 McCormick Rd, P.O. Box 400123, Charlottesville VA 22904-4123, [email protected].
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