Growth and decay of palsas and peat plateaus in the Macmillan Pass–Tsichu River area, Northwest Territories, Canada

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

• Publication date

  1979-07-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1139/E79-122
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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