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Surface morphological types and spatial distribution of fan-shaped landforms in the periglacial high-Arctic environment of central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

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Pages 239-251 | Received 30 Aug 2016, Accepted 09 Feb 2017, Published online: 09 Mar 2017

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