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Comment on “Outburst Floods from Glacial Lake Missoula” by G. K. C. Clarke, W. H. Mathews, and R. T. Pack

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James E. Beget*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics Alaska Quaternary Center University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 USA
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