The 'twilight' of the mammoth fauna in the Asiatic Arctic

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-255

  Sulerzhitsky, Leopold D ^a,b   Romanenko, Fedor A ^c  

^a Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAUNA; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0033065709     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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14. Acknowledgements. This work could not have been accomplished without the generous help of all the members of Tundra Ecology -94 expedition. We wish to thank Professor Y.V. Mamkaev, Drs. N.I. Abramson, R.E. Gill, M.V. Glasov, S.V. Goryachkin, E. Isaksson, A.G. Kupriyanov, E.G. Lappo, D.V. Politov, V.I. Pozdnyakov, A.A. Romanov, E.E. Syroechkovsky Jr., V.B. Fedorov, N.V. Vronski, and M.V. Berezin, I. Chupin, V.N. Karpov, D.I. Rogers, V. Savenkov, V.O. Yakovlev for their significant help during the collection of samples. We are very much obliged to N.E. Zaretskaya and Dr. N. V. Vronski for translation of this paper into English.