The problem of megafloods and catafluvial deposits in understanding the quaternary History of northern Eurasia (Editorial)

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E. V. Deev

Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: deevev1@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk

I. D. Zolnikov

Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the RAS

Email: zol@igm.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, Novosibirsk

R. N. Kurbanov

Institute of Geography RAS; Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: roger.kurbanov@gmail.com

Faculty of Geography

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

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