Stable isotope study of precipitation and cave drip water in Florida (USA): implications for speleothem-based paleoclimate studiesFootnote†

Revised version of a paper presented at the 9th, Symposium of the European Society for Isotope Research (ESIR), 23 to 28 June 2007, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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