Seasonal variations of sediment discharge from the Yangtze River before and after impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam

Geomorphology - Tập 104 - Trang 276-283 - 2009
Kehui Xu1, John D. Milliman1
1School of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA

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