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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Andrew D. Miall

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Miall, A.D. (2018). Depositional Environments. In: Sorkhabi, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02330-4_138-1

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