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Dramatic shifts in atmospheric radiocarbon during the last glacial period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David A. Richard
Affiliation:
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, England
J. Warren Bec
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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