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Climate Science Glossary
Return to glossary listMacLeod (2014)
Also: MacLeod 2014
The geological extinction record: History, data, biases, and testing
MacLeod, N. (2014). The geological extinction record: History, data, biases, and testing. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 505, 1-28. Link to abstract
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References
All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.
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