Oxygen isotopic determination of climatic variation using phosphate from beaver bone, tooth enamel, and dentine

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2539-2550

  Stuart Williams, Hilary Le Q ^a   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC VARIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALAEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHATE; TOOTH ENAMEL;

EID: 0031444014     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00112-9     Document Type: Article

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