Drip water isotopes in semi-arid karst: Implications for speleothem paleoclimatology
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عنوان ژورنال: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0012-821X
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.034