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Glacial surface temperatures of the southeast Atlantic Ocean

J P Sachs1, R F Anderson, S J Lehman

  • 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E34-254, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. jsachs@mit.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 15, 2001
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