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Original Articles

Glacial history, Holocene shoreline displacement and palaeoclimate based on radiocarbon ages in the area of Bockfjorden, north-western Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Otto SalvigsenDept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Box 1047 Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway, [email protected]
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Kirsti HøgvardStore Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani AS, Box 613, NO-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway.
Pages 15-24 | Published online: 16 Dec 2016

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