Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-209-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-209-2021
Retrospectives
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17 Dec 2021
Retrospectives |  | 17 Dec 2021

A tribute to Louis (1952): On the theory of glacial erosion in valleys

Pierre G. Valla

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