Hit-or-myth? Linking a 1259 AD acid spike with an Okataina eruption

Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 276, 1998, Pages 427-431

  Lowe, David J ^a   Higham, Thomas F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0001702562     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x00086737     Document Type: Article

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