Historical nile floods and their implications for climatic change.

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• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1981-06-05

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.212.4499.1142PMID 17815224
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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