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Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

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Last, W.M. (2002). Textural Analysis of Lake Sediments. In: Last, W.M., Smol, J.P. (eds) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47670-3_4

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