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Orbital- and millennial-scale environmental changes between 64 and 20 ka BP recorded in Black Sea sediments
L. S. Shumilovskikh
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
D. Fleitmann
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
N. R. Nowaczyk
Helmholtz Center Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
H. Behling
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
F. Marret
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
A. Wegwerth
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
H. W. Arz
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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