Enhanced climate variability in the tropics: a 200 000 yr annual record of monsoon variability from Pangea's equator

Anderson, R. Y.

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Enhanced climate variability in the tropics: a 200 000 yr annual record of monsoon variability from Pangea's equator

R. Y. Anderson

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA

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