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In the year 1909, Yale University geologist and geographer Ellsworth Huntington was granted a leave of absence and funds to tour Palestine and its neighboring countries. Huntington was not a stranger to Asia; within the previous ten years he had investigated the flood patterns of the upper Euphrates in eastern Turkey, traveled with a research team to regions of present-day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Central Asia, and toured the Sinkiang province of Western China.
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(2007). The Pendulum of Paradigms. In: Climate Change —. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69852-4_1
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