Accelerated soil erosion around a Mexican highland lake caused by prehispanic agriculture

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  1993

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1993-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1038/362048a0
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