Chapter Thirteen Transfer Functions: Methods for Quantitative Paleoceanography Based on Microfossils

Developments in Marine Geology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 523-563

  Guiot, Joël ^a   de Vernal, Anne ^a  

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MICROFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 37349012162     PISSN: 15725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-5480(07)01018-4     Document Type: Review

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