Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1177-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1177-2012
Research article
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19 Jul 2012
Research article |  | 19 Jul 2012

Enrichment in 13C of atmospheric CH4 during the Younger Dryas termination

J. R. Melton, H. Schaefer, and M. J. Whiticar

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