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  1. Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Federico Vilas, Ana Bernabeu, Belén Rubio & Daniel Rey

  2. Planetary Science Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Henrik Hargitai

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Vilas, F., Bernabeu, A., Rubio, B., Rey, D., Hargitai, H. (2014). Deltas, Rías, and Estuaries. In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_601-1

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