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Soil Aggregates and Stabilization of Sand Dunes in the Thar Desert of India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

A.N. Pandey ,
R.C. Purohit  and
M.V. Rokad
A.N. Pandey
Affiliation:
Respectively Lecturer, Research Assistant, and Research Fellow, Department of Bioscience, Saurashtra University, Rajkot 360 005, India.
R.C. Purohit
Affiliation:
Respectively Lecturer, Research Assistant, and Research Fellow, Department of Bioscience, Saurashtra University, Rajkot 360 005, India.
M.V. Rokad
Affiliation:
Respectively Lecturer, Research Assistant, and Research Fellow, Department of Bioscience, Saurashtra University, Rajkot 360 005, India.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 69 - 71
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

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