Paleoclimate records from speleothems in limestone caves

Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-175

  White, William B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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