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Factors controlling the geochemical composition of Limnopolar Lake sediments (Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Island, Antarctica) during the last ca. 1600 years
A. Martínez Cortizas
Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Facultade de Bioloxía, Campus Vida s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
I. Rozas Muñiz
Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Facultade de Bioloxía, Campus Vida s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
T. Taboada
Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Facultade de Bioloxía, Campus Vida s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
M. Toro
Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos (CEDEX), Paseo Bajo Virgen del Puerto, 3, 28005 Madrid, Spain
I. Granados
Centro de Investigación, Seguimiento y Evaluación, Parque Nacional de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Ctra. M-604. km 27.6, 28740 Rascafría, Spain
S. Giralt
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (CSIC), Lluís Solé i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
S. Pla-Rabés
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Campus UAB, Edifici C, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Accés Cala St Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Catalonia, Spain
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Marion Louvel, Carmen Sanchez-Valle, Wim J. Malfait, Gleb S. Pokrovski, Camelia N. Borca, and Daniel Grolimund
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Mark Wilkinson and Debbie Polson
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Elmar Albers, Wolfgang Bach, Frieder Klein, Catriona D. Menzies, Friedrich Lucassen, and Damon A. H. Teagle
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Sediments containing hydrates dispersed in the pore space show a characteristic seismic anomaly: a high attenuation along with increasing seismic velocities. Recent major findings from synchrotron experiments revealed the systematic presence of thin water films between quartz and gas hydrate. Our numerical studies support earlier speculation that squirt flow causes high attenuation at seismic frequencies but are based on a conceptual model different to those previously considered.
Edris Mansouri, Faranak Feizi, Alireza Jafari Rad, and Mehran Arian
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Seann J. McKibbin, Bill Landenberger, and C. Mark Fanning
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Benjamin W. Johnson, Natashia Drage, Jody Spence, Nova Hanson, Rana El-Sabaawi, and Colin Goldblatt
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Johannes Kulenkampff, Marion Gründig, Abdelhamid Zakhnini, and Johanna Lippmann-Pipke
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F. Terribile, A. Agrillo, A. Bonfante, G. Buscemi, M. Colandrea, A. D'Antonio, R. De Mascellis, C. De Michele, G. Langella, P. Manna, L. Marotta, F. A. Mileti, L. Minieri, N. Orefice, S. Valentini, S. Vingiani, and A. Basile
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E. G. Nisbet, C. M. R. Fowler, and R. E. R. Nisbet
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