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  1. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Robin Davidson-Arnott

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Davidson-Arnott, R. (2019). Beach and Nearshore Instrumentation. In: Finkl, C.W., Makowski, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Coastal Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93806-6_30

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