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Comment on “North Atlantic Climate–Ocean Variations and Sea Level in Long Island Sound, Connecticut, Since 500 cal yr A.D.”1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joseph T. Kelley
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 04469-5790, E-mail: jtkelley@maine.edu, belknap@maine.edu, julia@iceage.umeqs.maine.edu
Daniel F. Belknap
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 04469-5790, E-mail: jtkelley@maine.edu, belknap@maine.edu, julia@iceage.umeqs.maine.edu
Julia F. Daly
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 04469-5790, E-mail: jtkelley@maine.edu, belknap@maine.edu, julia@iceage.umeqs.maine.edu

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Van de Plassche (2000).

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