Sand Dunes : Conservation, Types and Desertification

✍ Scribed by Jessica A. Murphy

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 163
Series: Earth Sciences in the 21st Century
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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Sand dune conservation. ; Sand dune ecology. ; Desertification.

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