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Chemical composition of modern and fossil hippopotamid teeth and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions and enamel formation – Part 2: Alkaline earth elements as tracers of watershed hydrochemistry and provenance
G. Brügmann
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 21, 55099 Mainz, Germany
J. Krause
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Institut für Mineralogie, Corrensstraße 24, Universität Münster, D48149 Münster, Germany
T. C. Brachert
Institut für Geophysik und Geologie, Talstraße 35, Universität Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
B. Stoll
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany
U. Weis
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany
O. Kullmer
Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
I. Ssemmanda
Geology Department, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Uganda
D. F. Mertz
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Joh.-Joachim-Becher-Weg 21, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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