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Title:

Extreme floods around AD 1700 in the northern Namib Desert, Namibia, and in the Orange River catchment, South Africa - Were they forced by a decrease of solar irradiance during the Little Ice Age?

Subtitle:

Geographia Polonica Vol. 84 Special Issue Part 1 (2011)

Creator:

Heine, Klaus ; Völkel, Jörg

Publisher:

IGiPZ PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2011

Description:

187 pp. ; 24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

palaeofloods ; extreme floods ; slackwater deposits ; tropical-temperate-trough ; solar irradiance ; Little Ice Age ; Namib Desert ; Orange River catchment

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