Articles | Volume 11, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3149-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3149-2014
Research article
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17 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 17 Jun 2014

17O excess traces atmospheric nitrate in paleo-groundwater of the Saharan desert

M. Dietzel, A. Leis, R. Abdalla, J. Savarino, S. Morin, M. E. Böttcher, and S. Köhler

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