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International Geology Review Volume 58, 2016 - Issue 14: Megafloods of Northern Asia
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Catastrophic flooding, palaeolakes, and late Quaternary drainage reorganization in northern Eurasia

Goro KomatsuInternational Research School of Planetary Sciences, Università d’Annunzio, Pescara, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Victor R. BakerDepartment of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, AZ, USA
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Sergei G. ArzhannikovThe Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Lermontova, Irkutsk, Russia
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Ronnie Gallagher c/o 170 Gardner Drive, Aberdeen, UK
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Anastasia V. ArzhannikovaThe Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Lermontova, Irkutsk, Russia
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Alessio MuranaInternational Research School of Planetary Sciences, Università d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy
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Takashi OguchiCenter for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Pages 1693-1722 | Received 29 Nov 2014, Accepted 01 May 2015, Published online: 13 Jul 2015

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