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9 - Ice Ages and Ice Cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

Kieran D. O'Hara
Kieran D. O'Hara
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University of Kentucky
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A Brief History of Geology , pp. 185 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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