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Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology Volume 42, 1990 - Issue 1
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Original Articles

A century old record of lead-210 fallout on the Greenland ice sheet

V. N. NijampurkarPhysical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad380 009, India
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H. B. ClausenGeophysical Institute, Department of Glaciology, Haraldsgade 6, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Pages 29-38 | Received 31 Oct 1988, Accepted 18 May 1989, Published online: 18 Jan 2017

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