From section to landscape(s): reconstructions of environmental and landscape changes for the past 8000 years around the site of Wakarida (Ethiopia) using chronostratigraphy

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 192, 2021 Special Issue Gearcheology


Article Number		53
Number of page(s)		29
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021041
Published online		03 November 2021

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