Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-713-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-713-2019
Research article
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09 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 09 Apr 2019

How dry was the Younger Dryas? Evidence from a coupled δ2H–δ18O biomarker paleohygrometer applied to the Gemündener Maar sediments, Western Eifel, Germany

Johannes Hepp, Lorenz Wüthrich, Tobias Bromm, Marcel Bliedtner, Imke Kathrin Schäfer, Bruno Glaser, Kazimierz Rozanski, Frank Sirocko, Roland Zech, and Michael Zech

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