Petrology of Nile River sands (Ethiopia and Sudan): Sediment budgets and erosion patterns

Earth and Planetary Science Letters - Tập 252 Số 3-4 - Trang 327-341 - 2006
Eduardo Garzanti1, Sergio Andó1, Giovanni Vezzoli1, Ada Ali Abdel Megid1, Ahmed El Kammar2
1Laboratorio di Petrografia del Sedimentario, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
2Geology Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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