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Four Decades of Landscape Change on a Granite Dome (Enchanted Rock, Texas): A Photographic Field Work Analysis

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Pages 39-68 | Received 26 Apr 2023, Accepted 30 Aug 2023, Published online: 29 Nov 2023

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