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Tracking atmospheric and riverine terrigenous supplies variability during the last glacial and the Holocene in central Mediterranean
V. Bout-Roumazeilles
Geosystemes, CNRS – UMR8217, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
N. Combourieu-Nebout
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, laboratoire Mixte CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
S. Desprat
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques, CNRS – UMR5808 EPOC, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
G. Siani
Laboratoire des Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements de Surface (IDES), UMR8148, CNRS-Université de Paris-Sud, Bât 504, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
J.-L. Turon
Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques, CNRS – UMR5808 EPOC, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
L. Essallami
GEOGLOB, Sfax Faculty of Sciences, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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