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8 - Iceberg risk

from Part II - Icebergs and their impacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Grant R. Bigg
Grant R. Bigg
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University of Sheffield
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Icebergs
Their Science and Links to Global Change
 , pp. 182 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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