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Age of the Thornton Beach, California, Mammoth Fossil Updated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki ,
Charles E. Meyer ,
John W. Hillhouse ,
N.Timothy Hall  and
Garniss H. Curtis
Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey MS 975, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025
Charles E. Meyer
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey MS 975, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025
John W. Hillhouse
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey MS 975, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025
N.Timothy Hall
Affiliation:
Geomatrix Consultants, 100 Pine Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94111
Garniss H. Curtis
Affiliation:
Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA, 94709
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Quaternary Research , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 327 - 331
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