Variation in n-alkane dD values from terrestrial plants at high latitude: Implications for paleoclimate reconstruction
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Department of Science and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI 02917, USA b State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, IEE, CAS, Xi’an 710075, PR China c School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, PR China d LPS, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, PR China Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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