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Evidence from Uranium-Series-Dated Speleothems for the Timing of the Penultimate Deglaciation of Northwestern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Isaac J. Winograd*
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, 432 National Center, Reston, Virginia, 20192
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