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Article: Sensitivity of south-east Atlantic planktonic foraminifera to mid-Pleistocene climate change

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 55
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2012
Page(s): 183 – 204
Author(s): Els Ufkes and Dick Kroon
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UFKES, E., KROON, D. 2012. Sensitivity of south-east Atlantic planktonic foraminifera to mid-Pleistocene climate change. Palaeontology, 55, 1, 183–204.

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