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Geographical Variations of Oxygen-18/Oxygen-16 Ratio in Surface Snow and Ice from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

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THE work recorded here is a continuation of that reported in Nature1,2 on the isotopic composition of Antarctic snows.

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  1. Laboratorio di Geologia Nucleare, Università di Pisa,

    R. GONFIANTINI, V. TOGLIATTI & E. TONGIORGI

  2. Laboratorium voor Fysische Aardrijkskunde, Universiteit te Gent,

    W. DE BREUCK

  3. Service de Géologie et Géochimie Nucléaires, Université Libre de Bruxelles,

    E. PICCIOTTO

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GONFIANTINI, R., TOGLIATTI, V., TONGIORGI, E. et al. Geographical Variations of Oxygen-18/Oxygen-16 Ratio in Surface Snow and Ice from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Nature 197, 1096–1098 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971096a0

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