Western Mediterranean abrupt deglacial climate changes
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Abrupt climate changes of the last deglaciation detected in a western Mediterranean forest record W. J. Fletcher, M. F. Sanchez Goñi, O. Peyron, and I. Dormoy Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, UMR 5805 CNRS EPOC, Université Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France Laboratoire de Chrono-Environnement, UMR 6249, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France Received: 27 November 2008 – Accepted: 3 December 2008 – Published: 20 January 2009 Correspondence to: W. J. Fletcher ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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