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Important Pre-requisites for the Existence of Lakes: Basin and Depression Forming Processes

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Scheffers, A.M., Kelletat, D.H. (2016). Important Pre-requisites for the Existence of Lakes: Basin and Depression Forming Processes. In: Lakes of the World with Google Earth. Coastal Research Library, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29617-3_2

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