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Comment on "Evidence Suggesting That Methods of Rock-Varnish Cation-Ratio Dating Are neither Comparable nor Consistently Reliable," by P. R. Bierman and A. R. Gillespie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles D. Harrington  and
John W. Whitney
Charles D. Harrington
Affiliation:
Earth and Environmental Science DivisionM.S. D462Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, New Mexico 87545
John W. Whitney
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey Federal CenterM. S. 425 Denver, Colorado 80225
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Quaternary Research , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , March 1995 , pp. 268 - 271
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University of Washington

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