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Post-processing of mineral mixture maps for mapping surficial materials: The example of the Matmata loess, southern Tunisia

K. White
,
I. Livingstone
,
S. Gurney
,
J. Dearing
&
M. Bateman
Pages 3091-3106 | Published online: 25 Nov 2010

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