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Original Articles

Late Holocene inter-annual temperature variability reconstructed from the δ18O of archaeological Ostrea angasi shells

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Pages 779-791 | Received 14 Aug 2016, Accepted 19 Jul 2017, Published online: 27 Aug 2017

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