Articles | Volume 71, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-83-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-83-2022
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13 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 13 Apr 2022

18O analyses of bulk lipids as novel paleoclimate tool in loess research – a pilot study

Jakob Labahn, Lucas Bittner, Philip Hirschmann, Christopher-Bastian Roettig, Diana Burghardt, Bruno Glaser, Slobodan B. Marković, and Michael Zech

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