δO and δD of streamwaters across the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau: Implications for moisture sources and paleoelevation reconstructions
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a Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06511, United States b Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, 1832 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, United States c Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Braun Hall, Building 320, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, United States d Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks P.O. Box 755860, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5860, United States e Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Braun Hall, Building 320 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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