Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1073-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1073-2013
Research article
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09 Jul 2013
Research article |  | 09 Jul 2013

Alpine permafrost thawing during the Medieval Warm Period identified from cryogenic cave carbonates

M. Luetscher, M. Borreguero, G. E. Moseley, C. Spötl, and R. L. Edwards

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