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22 May 2014
Research article |
| 22 May 2014
Low-latitude climate variability in the Heinrich frequency band of the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world
N. J. de Winter
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
now at: Earth System Science Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
C. Zeeden
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
Chair of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Dept. of Geology, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnerstr. 5b, 52056 Aachen, Germany
F. J. Hilgen
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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