Permanent El Niño during the Pliocene warm period not supported by coral evidence

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2011-03-10

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature09777PMID 21390128
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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