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Impact of levee breaches, flooding, and land scouring on soil productivity

Kenneth Olson, Jeffrey Matthews, Lois Wright Morton and John Sloan
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 2015, 70 (1) 5A-11A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.70.1.5A
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