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Data from the El Junco lake suggest that the climate of the eastern Pacific Ocean in glacial and postglacial times correlated with climatic events in the northern hemisphere.
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COLINVAUX, P. Climate and the Galapagos Islands. Nature 240, 17–20 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240017a0
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