Environmental implications of the distribution and physical characteristics of surface sediments in the northern Persian Gulf

Geo-Marine Letters - Tập 41 Số 4 - 2021
Mohammad Ali Hamzeh1
1Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Tehran, Iran

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