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Comment on Temperature Indices from Late Quaternary Terrestrial Sequence at Wonderkrater, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Francis Thackeray
Francis Thackeray*
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironmental Studies, Transvaal Museum, P.O. Box 413, Pretoria 0001
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Quaternary Research , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , November 1994 , pp. 354 - 355
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University of Washington

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