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Mammoth Extinction and Radiation Dose: A Comment1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands; also at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. Email: j.van.der.plicht@rug.nl.
A J T Jull
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Email: jull@email.arizona.edu.
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