Persistent millennial-scale climatic variability over the past 25,000 years in Southern Africa.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Quaternary Science Reviews

• Publication date

  2003-11-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00204-X
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