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Geological And Morphological Evolution of The Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) from the Biogeographical View Cover

Geological And Morphological Evolution of The Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) from the Biogeographical View

Journal of Landscape Ecology
Volume 6 (2013): Issue 3 (December 2013)
By: Martin Culek  
Open Access
|Aug 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2014-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1805-4196 | Journal ISSN: 1803-2427
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Language: English
Page range: 84 - 108
Submitted on: Dec 28, 2013
Accepted on: Apr 18, 2014
Published on: Aug 15, 2014
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