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Hit-or-myth? Linking a 1259 AD acid spike with an Okataina eruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Lowe
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Department of Earth Sciences & Geochronology Research Unit, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. [email protected]

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