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Comment on "Evidence Suggesting That Methods of Rock-Varnish Cation-Ratio Dating Are neither Comparable nor Consistently Reliable," by Paul R. Bierman and Alan R. Gillespie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald I. Dorn
Ronald I. Dorn*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-0104
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Letter to the Editor
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Quaternary Research , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , March 1995 , pp. 272 - 273
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University of Washington

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