Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians

Anthropocene - Tập 44 - Trang 100407 - 2023
Mircea Voiculescu1, Marcel Török-Oance1, Patrick Chiroiu1, Florentina Popescu1
1West University of Timişoara, Vasile Pârvan, 4, 300223 Timişoara, Romania

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