Records of millennial-scale climate change from the great basin of the western United States

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 112, Issue , 1999, Pages 203-225

  Benson, Larry ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 0008404488     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM112p0203     Document Type: Chapter

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