Global climate analysis of growth rings in woods, and its implications for deep-time paleoclimate studies

Paleobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 434-444

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; TREE RING; WOOD;

EID: 24344495208     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0434:GCAOGR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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