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The recent Arctic warm period

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Language: English
Page range: 589 - 597
Submitted on: Aug 21, 2007
Accepted on: Mar 7, 2008
Published on: Jan 1, 2008
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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