Interglacial responses of the southern Greenland ice sheet over the last 430,000 years determined using particle-size specific magnetic and isotopic tracers
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a College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada c Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA d Department of Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
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