Reassessment of the Position of the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary: Is There a Case for Lowering it to the Gauss-Matuyama Palaeomagnetic Reversal?

Quaternary International

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-10

  Partridge, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 0002886021     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6182(96)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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