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Bunker Cave stalagmites: an archive for central European Holocene climate variability
J. Fohlmeister
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
A. Schröder-Ritzrau
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
D. Scholz
Institute for Geosciences, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
C. Spötl
Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
D. F. C. Riechelmann
Institute for Geography, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
M. Mudelsee
Climate Risk Analysis, Hanover, Germany
A. Wackerbarth
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
A. Gerdes
Institute for Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
S. Riechelmann
Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
A. Immenhauser
Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
D. K. Richter
Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
A. Mangini
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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