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Discussion of “Prehistoric Landfall Frequencies of Catastrophic Hurricanes…” (Liu and Fearn, 2000)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ervin G. Otvos*
Affiliation:
Department of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, P.O. Box 7000, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, 39566-7000, E-mail: ervin.otvos@usm.edu
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