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Bobylev, L.P., Miles, M.W. (2020). Sea Ice in the Arctic Paleoenvironments. In: Johannessen, O., Bobylev, L., Shalina, E., Sandven, S. (eds) Sea Ice in the Arctic. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21301-5_2

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