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Original Articles

Testing lake sediment and dendrogeomorphic proxies for little ice age environmental change in the upper fraser river area, british columbia, canada

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Pages 393-410 | Received 01 Aug 2009, Accepted 01 Mar 2010, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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