Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews - Tập 65 - Trang 88-101 - 2013
James A Collins1, Enno Schefuß1, Stefan Mulitza1, Matthias Prange1, Martin Werner2, Thejna Tharammal1, André Paul1, Gerold Wefer1
1MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359, Bremen, Germany
2Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D‐27570 Bremerhaven (Germany)

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