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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1797-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1797-2013
Research article
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18 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2013

Using the significant dust deposition event on the glaciers of Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus Mountains, Russia on 5 May 2009 to develop a method for dating and "provenancing" of desert dust events recorded in snow pack

M. Shahgedanova, S. Kutuzov, K. H. White, and G. Nosenko

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