Resolving a late Oligocene conundrum: Deep-sea warming and Antarctic glaciation
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a Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, New York 11367, USA b Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA c Department of Geosciences, 233 Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, USA d Department of Geosciences, 214 Bessey Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2004