Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-45-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-45-2019
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16 Apr 2019
Review article |  | 16 Apr 2019

IUGG evolves (1940–2000)

Jo Ann Joselyn and Alik Ismail-Zadeh

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