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Research Article

Tracking Holocene drift-ice limits on the northwest–southwest Iceland shelf: Comparing proxy data with observation and historical evidence

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Pages 96-114 | Received 25 Apr 2018, Accepted 04 Mar 2019, Published online: 18 Apr 2019

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