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Precipitation originates mostly from the atlantic ocean and is transported over the continent by. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Encyclopedia of quaternary science, fourvolume set s. This team of writers and editors represents 28 countries in europe, asia, africa, the americas, australia, and new zealand. Quaternary the cenozoic era 1, 65 million years ago to the present, is divided into two periods, the tertiary and the quaternary.
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