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PalaeoArc: Processes and Palaeo-environmental Changes in the Arctic - from Past to Present

Multiproxy investigation of the last 2,000 years BP marine paleoenvironmental record along the western Spitsbergen margin

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Pages 562-583 | Received 01 Dec 2021, Accepted 08 Sep 2022, Published online: 01 Nov 2022

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