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The Significance of Terraces due to Climatic Oscillation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. A. Cotton
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When describing river terraces in his recently published account of the “Ice Age in West China” Richardson has assumed without question that in a period characterized by climatic oscillation wetter (and generally also colder) episodes result in aggradation and that degradation follows diminished precipitation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , February 1945 , pp. 10 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1945

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