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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

    Jani Radebaugh

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 300-331, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA

    Priyanka Sharma

  3. Earth and Space Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Jarmo Korteniemi

  4. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

    Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons

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Radebaugh, J., Sharma, P., Korteniemi, J., Fitzsimmons, K.E. (2014). Longitudinal Dunes (or Linear Dunes). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_460-2

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