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Climatic signals in tree-ring chronologies for British oaks

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  1. Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    G. C. VARLEY

  2. School of Geography, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    N. B. M. CALTON & C. G. SMITH

  3. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

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VARLEY, G., CALTON, N., SMITH, C. et al. Climatic signals in tree-ring chronologies for British oaks. Nature 278, 282 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/278282a0

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