Storage and Remobilization of Suspended Sediment in the Lower Amazon River of Brazil

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1985-04-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.228.4698.488PMID 17746891
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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