Worldwide Initiation of Holocene Marine Deltas by Deceleration of Sea-Level Rise

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• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1994-07-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.265.5169.228PMID 17750665
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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