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Yellow Sands and Penguins: The Soil of “The Great Escape”

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Peter Doyle

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  1. US Geological Survey, National Center 431, Reston, 20192, U.S.A.

    Edward R. Landa

  2. Développement (IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le, place Viala 2, Montpellier CX 1, 34060, France

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Doyle, P., Babits, L., Pringle, J. (2010). Yellow Sands and Penguins: The Soil of “The Great Escape”. In: Landa, E., Feller, C. (eds) Soil and Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2960-7_25

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