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19 Jan 2016
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| 19 Jan 2016
Holocene climate variability in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions)
GEOGLOB, Université de Sfax, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax,
route de Soukra km 4-BP.802, 3038, Sfax, Tunisia
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Université Paris
06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris,
France
M.-A. Sicre
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Université Paris
06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris,
France
M.-A. Bassetti
CEFREM, Université de Perpignan, Avenue J.-P. Alduy, 66860
Perpignan, France
N. Kallel
GEOGLOB, Université de Sfax, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax,
route de Soukra km 4-BP.802, 3038, Sfax, Tunisia
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